"The name Jack was given by an American tourist."

"When we started the e-commerce, nobody believed that China would have e-commerce because people believed in 'guang-shi,' face-to-face, and all kinds of network in traditional ways. There's no trust system in China."

"I want to stress the importance of being fair to our readers. You should not impose your own view and prejudice on the readers and try to lead them to a conclusion. As a reader, I understand what a fair report is."

"A trade war would be a disaster for the world. It's very easy to slip into a trade war."

"I'm just a purist. What is important in my life is that I can do something that can influence many people and influence China's development. When I am myself, I am relaxed and happy and have a good result."

"When I was starting out, I thought about how the Internet is global and that we should have a global name, a name that's interesting. At that time, the best name was Yahoo! Suddenly I thought, 'Alibaba is a good name.'"

"It's not that other countries steal jobs from you guys. It's your strategy. Distribute the money and things in a proper way."

"When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English."

"My job is to help more people have jobs."

"People think, 'Jack, you do too much.'"

"I want people to learn what democracy means."

"China's government is so strong on investment, so strong on exporting, but they're too weak on domestic consumption."

"The difference between Amazon and us is Amazon is more like an empire - everything they control themselves, buy and sell."

"Nobody wanted to believe Jack Ma."

"I tell the government, if people have no jobs, you are in trouble. Government will be in trouble. My job is to help more people have jobs."

"I like to play cards. I'm not very good, because I don't want to calculate, I just play by instinct. But I've learned a lot of business philosophy by playing poker."

"Every time there's an election, people start to criticize China."

"What kind of business world are we living in?"

"I know nothing about technology."

"I even don't dare to watch our stock price, because this is what other people think who you are. I dare not watch it. I think, let the market take care of themselves; we should take care of the business."

"When I was 12 years old, I went to swim in a lake, and I almost died in that lake because the water was too deep - much deeper than I thought."

"As a company, we have to be very transparent. We are in a business very related to finance, and I want this company to last long, and I want this company to be audited by everyone."

"Alibaba is an ecosystem that helps small business to grow."

"I don't shop online, but my wife buys everything at home. We buy sea crabs, fresh crabs, all kinds of things."

"You American people worry too much about the China economy. Every time you think China is a problem, we get better, but when you have a high expectation for China, China is always a problem."

"You American people worry too much about the China economy. Every time you think China is a problem, we get better, but when you have a high expectation for China, China is always a problem."

"Chinese people, young people, they don't go shopping a lot in department stores. All department store guys hate me. They say business is bad because of Jack."

"I believe the most important thing for the media is to be objective, fair, and balanced. We should not report a story with preconceptions or prejudice."

"The world is getting so small. Young people are mobile; they want to travel around the world. When you travel around the world, you exchange culture, you want to make friends, you want to exchange things."

"I respect Apple. It's a great company that changed the world, especially the mobile time."

"If Alibaba cannot become a Microsoft or Wal-Mart, I will regret it for the rest of my life."

"A peace talk is always difficult, always complicated."

"A startup for entrepreneurs is like a baby, and I have five babies so far - experienced father."

"Our philosophy is, using internet technology, we can make every company become Amazon."

"If the 'Post' can play the role of a connector between the West and the East, I have confidence in the paper's future success."

"As a business person, I want the world to share the prosperity together."

"I want to change history, do something important in my life, and influence individuals like we have with millions of small businesses on Alibaba. Then they love and respect you because you made their life important."

"If you want to invest in us, we believe customer number one, employee number two, shareholder number three. If they don't want to buy that, that's fine. If they regret, they can sell us."

"The American multinational companies made millions and millions of dollars from globalization."

"If you're doing business, not that simple to only buy. You have to create something. You have to create something that never exist for the future."

"I try to make myself happy, no, because I know that if I'm not happy, my colleagues are not happy and my shareholders are not happy and my customers are not happy."

"My vision is to build an e-commerce ecosystem that allows consumers and businesses to do all aspects of business online."

"I'm not a tech guy. I'm looking at the technology with the eyes of my customers, normal people's eyes."

"The very important thing you should have is patience."

"Help young people. Help small guys. Because small guys will be big. Young people will have the seeds you bury in their minds, and when they grow up, they will change the world."

"Trade is a communication of cultures and values."

"I'm coming to this world not to work. I want to come to this world to enjoy my life. I don't want to die in my office. I want to die on the beaches."

"I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected."

"Spending money is much more difficult than making money."

"We should keep on going along the path of globalization. Globalization is good... when trade stops, war comes."