Jack Ma Quotes

Any entrepreneur has to prepare for a lot of dark days, and they've got to really like what they are doing, and they have to have a reason for it to succeed.

As an entrepreneur, you only fail when you give up.

I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance... Unless you have a lot of passion about this, you're not going to survive. You're going to give it up. So you've got to have an idea, or a problem or a wrong that you want to right that you're passionate about otherwise you're not going to have the perseverance to stick it through.

The biggest hurdle is rejection. Any business you start, be ready for it. The difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is the successful people do all the things the unsuccessful people don't want to do. When 10 doors are slammed in your face, go to door number 11 enthusiastically, with a smile on your face.

My training of cold-calling and everyone under the sun telling me no, and my keeping going, was a huge part of the first two years of Spanx.

All the things I love is what my business is all about.

I know I'm not going to book everything I go in on, and that's just the nature of the business. You have to keep hustling and not get down on it. You have to keep at it and find your way in. Everybody's story is different.

Being an entrepreneur is my dream job, as it tests ones tenacity.

You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

You can never be satisfied as an entrepreneur, and the basis of any successful, growing business is new clients.

You have to want to play it all day, every day to get to the top.

Who's more likely to succeed - someone with high skill and no ambition, or no skill and high ambition? If you're an entrepreneur, you can hire as many skilled people for your business as you want.

To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart.

It's a business, but I play the game and I love it every day. That's what I'm going to continue to do.

Without internet, there would have been no Jack Ma, and no Alibaba or Taobao.

Because I don't see Virgin as a company but as a way of life and I fully enjoy it, I don't think I'll ever retire.

I'm convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.

Entrepreneurs don't finish when we are tired. We finish when we are done.

LEARN FROM FAILURE. If you are an entrepreneur and your first venture wasn't a success, welcome to the club.

Commit to your business. Believe in it more than anybody else.

As an entrepreneur, you can always find a solution if you try hard enough.

Entrepreneurs must love what they do to such a degree that doing it is worth sacrifice and, at times, pain. But doing anything else, we think, would be unimaginable.

I will work day and night to avoid failure, but if I can't, I'll pick myself up the next day. The most important thing for entrepreneurs is not to be put off by failure.

There is no point in starting your own business unless you do it out of a sense of frustration.

Success is the result of clear goal, unshakable confidence, proper planning, enthusiastic ACTION and consistent persistence.