Jack ma Quotes and Biography 2022
Jack Ma is a Chinese business executive and the owner of Alibaba Group who is 58 years of age as of the year 2022. He was born on 10th Sep of 1964 and was born in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China. He also owns ChinaVision Media which is now the Alibaba Media after he bought it in 2014.
His firm is the largest ranked Chinese film company which is known for its worth and has also invested in quite a number of Chinese films & big blockbusters like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, Star Trek Beyond & Mission Impossible – Rogue Nation.
Early life, Family and Relationship
Jack Ma started studying English at a very young age as he did begin with speaking to English speakers in the Hangzhou International Hotel. He took nearly nine years of time to learn English by riding twenty-seven kilometres and taking tours for tourists or foreigners in the local places on a bicycle. One of them was a person named Jack as his real Chinese name was hard for him to mention and they had become pen pals.
Father: Ma Laifa
Mother: Cui Wencai
During his youth, he suffered a lot from going to college. He has failed the entrance exam for the Hangzhou Teachers College twice where he had a tough time with mathematics.
He took three years to pass it and this exam was held on an annual basis. Then he was in the Hangzhou Teacher’s Institute which is now called the Hangzhou Normal University and got his graduation in 1988 with a Bachelor of Arts in English. He has been the head of the student council when he was at school.
He also became a lecturer the at Hangzhou Dianzi University where he taught English and international trade. Ma has also stated that he was rejected by Havard ten times and got rejected all the time in Harvard Business School.
Jack ma Success and career
Jack ma has stated in his autobiographical speech that after he got graduated from the Hangzhou Normal University in the year of 1988 he has applied for thirty-one different odd jobs and was also rejected by every single one of them and he also went for a job in KFC and was rejected there too where twenty-six went for the job and the selected was twenty-three in which he wasn’t the one.
It’s clearly seen from all his hard work and passion for learning that no matter how many failures or better put once a failure or how many ever failures doesn’t equal and imply to an irreversible reaction.
Jack ma Quotes
1 Today is cruel. Tomorrow is crueler and the day after tomorrow is beautiful.
2 Your attitude is more important than your capabilities. Similarly, your decision is more important than your capabilities.
3 Luck is very important. Of course, you can’t wait for luck, because it won’t come. While you start a journey, luck may eventually come to you.
4 The world will not remember what you say, but it will not forget what you have done.
5 You cannot unify everyone’s thoughts, but you can unify everyone through a common goal.
6 Instead of learning from other people’s success, learn from their mistakes. Most of the people who fail share common reasons whereas success can be attributed to various different kinds of reasons.
7 When I am myself, I am happy and have a good result.
8 Try to find the right people, not the best people.
9 Stay hungry and follow your dreams.
10 No matter what one does, regardless of failure or success, the experience is a form of success in itself.
11 It’s easier to win if you have people seeing things from different perspectives.
12 If you don’t give up, you still have a chance. Giving up is the greatest failure.
13 A real businessman or entrepreneur has no enemies. Once he understands this, the sky’s the limit.
14 The very important thing you should have is patience.
15 If you don’t do it, nothing’s possible.
16 Only fools use their mouths to speak. A smart man uses his brain, and a wise man uses his heart.
17 A good boss is better than a good company.
18 Once in your life, try something, work hard at something. Try to change. Nothing bad can happen.
19 30% of all people will never believe you. Do not allow your colleagues and employees to work for you. Instead, let them work for a common goal.
20 Life is so short, so beautiful. Don’t be so serious about work. Enjoy life.
21 Spending money is much more difficult than making money.
22 A peace talk is always difficult, always complicated.
23 Don’t care about revenues.
24 When people think too highly of you, you have the responsibility to calm down and be yourself.
25 The opportunities that everyone cannot see are the real opportunities.
26 If we are a good team and know what we want to do, one of us can defeat ten of them.
27 We appreciate yesterday, but we’re looking for a better tomorrow.
28 A leader should be visionary and have more foresight than the employee.
29 If you have a different mind set, you will have a different outcome.
30 I don’t want people to have deep pockets but shallow minds.