Jack Ma Quotes

I can't understand the conditions of a corporate product being designed and getting millions. I admire it, it's great, but I don't know how to do that. I have to have the wheel.

A lot of companies are able to do without design. A few companies are able to do without creativity. A very few. Creativity is crucial to your business.

I love to think about business. It's what makes me happy.

It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

I think running a business, doing what I've done for the last - since 1996, has taught me so many things because I started from just an idea and then had to figure out how to make it, market it, every single thing from soup to nuts on how to get a product done and out there.

My desire to participate in the business is not to make more crap.

New products, new markets, new investors, and new ways of doing things are the lifeblood of growth. And while each innovation carries potential risk, businesses that don't innovate will eventually diminish.

I believe in this industry as a business, and I want to continue to grow my own business.

I understand the highs and lows of building a global business from the ground and taking that initial product idea all the way to the market.

I've always been obsessed with marketing and media. I always wanted to be a business brand owner. I wanted to create things.

Business is about more than just money. It's about being creative and innovative.

Business has only two basic functions - marketing and innovation.

Business fascinates me. It's very creative.

I always knew I wanted to start my own line. Nights and weekends, I would work on my business plan.

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.

Along the way, I learned the key to launching a company. It's all about storytelling.

In the movies, you want a good story and characters that are honest, but you are also looking for a good director who can lead the ship. That's how we look at business. Everybody has a great idea for a start-up, and so do their relatives, and they tell me, 'You gotta build it.' I say, 'I have to believe in it.'

I'd get kicked out of buildings all day long, people would rip up my business card in my face. It's a humbling business to be in. But I knew I could sell and I knew I wanted to sell something I had created. I cut the feet out of those pantyhose and I knew I was on to something. This was it.

There's always something happening in the world that creates an opportunity to try to fix a business and build a business.

It's really important that we have an ecosystem where small innovative entrepreneurs can develop new products and access consumers and have a chance to succeed.

Companies that grow for the sake of growth or that expand into areas outside their core business strategy often stumble. On the other hand, companies that build scale for the benefit of their customers and shareholders more often succeed over time.

There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward.

How many times have you been out for a beer or dinner and people are coming up with business ideas? Everybody wants to think they've got that great business idea.

Fact is, inventing an innovative business model is often mostly a matter of serendipity.