Qin Ma quote: "We went to the library a lot, and I let them just read whatever they liked. On Sundays they went to Barnes & Noble to read new books. Now, it's their favorite place."

They're both like birds halfway out of the nest.
QIN MA

Playing on the Burj Al Arab helipad was an unforgettable experience, and the view of Dubai was incre...
MA LONG

If the 'Post' can play the role of a connector between the West and the East, I have confide...
JACK MA

I believe always you should have a philanthropic heart inside but business way. Because you have to ...
JACK MA

Trade is a communication of cultures and values.
JACK MA

I call Alibaba '1,001 mistakes.' We expanded too fast, and then in the dot-com bubble, we ha...
JACK MA

If we work so hard and put all the money in the hospital to buy medicine - it will be a disaster. Wh...
JACK MA

The most important thing is to make the technology inclusive - make the world change. Next, pay atte...
JACK MA

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

I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected.
JACK MA

Hong Kong people say Hong Kong needs to preserve its uniqueness. I say Hong Kong's uniqueness is...
JACK MA

Our philosophy is that we want to be an ecosystem. Our philosophy is to empower others to sell, empo...
JACK MA

You should learn from your competitor, but never copy. Copy and you die.
JACK MA

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

I flunked my exam for university two times before I was accepted by what was considered my city'...
JACK MA

I want to change history, do something important in my life, and influence individuals like we have ...
JACK MA

I got my story, my dream, from America. The hero I had is Forrest Gump... I like that guy. I've ...
JACK MA

Before I left China, I was educated that China was the richest, happiest country in the world. So wh...
JACK MA

The lessons I learned from the dark days at Alibaba are that you've got to make your team have v...
JACK MA

I have to throw off the burden and the pressure.
MA LONG

I am very happy my Olympic dream has come true.
MA LONG

I'm extremely happy that I could win the gold medal. It's a special moment in my career.
MA LONG

I just want to do my job.
MA LONG

I am very glad not only to complete the grand slam, but to become Olympic champion alone makes me ha...
MA LONG

It was a great privilege for me and my teammates to follow in the footsteps of sporting greats like ...
MA LONG

To win a gold medal at Olympic Games has long been my dream ever since I started my career as a tabl...
MA LONG

No matter who I meet, I won't have any pressure.
MA LONG

We are a motivated team, and there is nothing that can stop us from winning the title. Even if I had...
MA LONG

This gold medal, to me, is a very good outcome from the many years I've spent on my professional...
MA LONG

With its imagination and large sales, Apple has become the world's most valuable IT company. How...
MA JUN

Like in those cancer villages, a group of old ladies kneeling down in front of me, you know, holding...
MA JUN

Everyone else has some interest in economic growth and development, which often happens at the expen...
MA JUN

Some of the areas in China have been under very grave water scarcity: for example, the north China p...
MA JUN

I hope they can see that as a consumer, if they express themselves, they may make an impact and leve...
MA JUN

Environmental groups are not completely against dams. We approve of appropriate development.
MA JUN

At the end of the day, the government, local government all bow to public pressure.
MA JUN

I hope to see an integrated solution created to deal with both the local pollution problem and the g...
MA JUN

Brands who come to China, often they just care about price - so they actually drive the suppliers to...
MA JUN

No matter how rich you are, you can't get healthy air.
MA JUN

The motivation should come from regulatory enforcement, but enforcement is weak, and environmental l...
MA JUN

The situation is quite serious - groundwater is important source for water use, including drinking w...
MA JUN

Of course, as consumers, we want cheap and good products; however, if these production processes are...
MA JUN

China leads the world in energy consumption, carbon emissions, and the release of major air and wate...
MA JUN

It's true that hydropower exploitation can bring economic development, but not necessarily to th...
MA JUN

When I look at China's environmental problems, the real barrier is not lack of technology or mon...
MA JUN

There is a growing recognition of the importance of really bringing pollution under control.
MA JUN

If you publish something in traditional media, it's one-way. With social media, we get all this ...
MA JUN

Globalisation has powered economic growth in developing countries such as China. Global logistics, l...
MA JUN

Beijing Coma took me 10 years to finish.
MA JIAN

I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually.
MA JIAN

China is completely lacking in self-awareness and as someone who has stepped outside that society, I...
MA JIAN

I wanted to analyse and understand how the Chinese people could have their lives so crushed by fear.
MA JIAN

Red Dust was about the late 1980s; it was a time of burgeoning hopes and opening up and people searc...
MA JIAN

Living in London is like being on a luxury cruise liner.
MA JIAN

I believe that the Tibetans should have the right to control their own destinies and decide for them...
MA JIAN

'Three Kingdoms' gives you a panoply of different routes; everyone can find their own path. ...
MA JIAN

I am completely in favour of dialogue and engagement. But it must be a true, open dialogue.
MA JIAN

While I was writing 'Stick Out Your Tongue' in Beijing, the police began knocking on my door...
MA JIAN

The Beijing Olympics represent China's grand entrance onto the world stage and confirmation of i...
MA JIAN

In February of this year I returned to China to research my next book. The authorities know about th...
MA JIAN

I am a writer. Being critical is a writer's responsibility.
MA JIAN

My hope is that the Chinese government will come to realise that it is futile to repress free speech...
MA JIAN

Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
MA JIAN

When the written and spoken word is censored, the urban landscape becomes a nation's only physic...
MA JIAN

I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny.
MA JIAN

I am trying to persuade my family to spend more time in China. It's no fun to be in exile. I can...
MA JIAN

After the Tiananmen Massacre, I felt compelled not only to continue writing but to actively resist t...
MA JIAN

To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their ...
MA JIAN

Whatever China I'd been born into, I would probably still have become a painter - I loved sketch...
MA JIAN

In 1989, I was on Tiananmen Square with the students, living in their makeshift tents and joining th...
MA JIAN

When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
MA JIAN

On all open platforms, regardless of whether it's Facebook or the Apple App Store, the largest s...
MA HUATENG

A Central Bank official said that Q-coin did not affect the renminbi; it adds vibrancy to the econom...
MA HUATENG

It's difficult for any single company to develop all the applications and services.
MA HUATENG

I think Steve Jobs is my idol.
MA HUATENG

My biggest crisis is that I don't understand what young people like.
MA HUATENG

Look at Microsoft, Google, and Facebook. They have all entered many sectors, and actually, in many o...
MA HUATENG

If you ask me what I worry about every morning when I wake up, it's that I don't understand ...
MA HUATENG

I think every Internet user likes personalization.
MA HUATENG

In America, when you bring an idea to market, you usually have several months before competition pop...
MA HUATENG

At Tencent, we may be businessmen, but we are still chasing our IT, our science. We are still strivi...
MA HUATENG

You need to have extraordinary wisdom to be the forerunner.
MA HUATENG

The leader of the market today may not necessarily be the leader tomorrow.
MA HUATENG

Wealth won't give you satisfaction; creating a good product that's well received by users is...
MA HUATENG

There should be order if the development of the cyber world is to be sustainable.
MA HUATENG

I like to play cards. I'm not very good, because I don't want to calculate, I just play by i...
JACK MA

What kind of business world are we living in?
JACK MA

I don't shop online, but my wife buys everything at home. We buy sea crabs, fresh crabs, all kin...
JACK MA

The tighter you squeeze, the less you have. The best leaders of all, the people know not they ...
MA-TSU

The mind that does not understand is the Buddha. There is no other.
MA-TSU

Pollution is a serious one. Water pollution, air pollution, and then solid hazardous waste pollution...
MA JUN

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

I'm not a tech guy. I'm looking at the technology with the eyes of my customers, normal peop...
JACK MA

We should keep on going along the path of globalization. Globalization is good... when trade stops, ...
JACK MA

I try to make myself happy, no, because I know that if I'm not happy, my colleagues are not happ...
JACK MA

Only when you are aware of the uniqueness of everyone's individual body will you begin to have a...
MA JIAN

My job is making money, helping other people make money. I am spending money, trying to make sure mo...
JACK MA

Spending money is much more difficult than making money.
JACK MA

The very important thing you should have is patience.
JACK MA

The world needs new leadership, but the new leadership is about working together.
JACK MA

Help young people. Help small guys. Because small guys will be big. Young people will have the seeds...
JACK MA

Even the government understands that the environmental challenge is so big that no single agency can...
MA JUN

Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine.
JACK MA

When I am myself, I am happy and have a good result.
JACK MA

As a company, we have to be very transparent. We are in a business very related to finance, and I wa...
JACK MA

People realised this is real pollution; it is not fog. Now everyone has to face the data and come ou...
MA JUN

We firmly believe the environmental issues cannot be addressed without extensive public participatio...
MA JUN

Trust the young people; trust this generation's innovation. They're making things, changing ...
JACK MA

Chinese people, young people, they don't go shopping a lot in department stores. All department ...
JACK MA

I think I'm the greatest chick in the game, and I expect all the others to feel the same way. If...
REMY MA

The more I come to know about the outside world's perception of China, the more I feel there are...
JACK MA

I'll talk all this craziness in my music, but when I have your attention, and you're listeni...
REMY MA

Beijing was such a different city. There were so few cars, I could walk in the middle of the road. I...
MA JUN

Environmental agencies in China are hamstrung by local officials who put economic growth ahead of en...
MA JUN

When I was little, I wanted to be an astronomer, but that didn't happen.
MA HUATENG

Glory is attained from hard work, step by step.
MA LONG

I didn't have any look or any style in prison. Your footwear couldn't cost more than $50. Yo...
REMY MA

In the future, officials will feel more pressure to protect the environment. But how to assess the o...
MA JUN

Asia is changing, and China is changing. The 'Post' will have great opportunities. With its ...
JACK MA

The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debat...
MA JIAN

My dream was to set up my own e-commerce company. In 1999, I gathered 18 people in my apartment and ...
JACK MA

I don't think I'm a workaholic. Every weekend, I invite my colleagues and friends to my home...
JACK MA

There's an examination for young people to go to university. I failed it three times. I failed a...
JACK MA

It is vitally important for me, both personally and for my writing, to be able to return to China fr...
MA JIAN

I'm coming to this world not to work. I want to come to this world to enjoy my life. I don't...
JACK MA

When we first started our internet company, 'China Pages', in 1995, and we were just making ...
JACK MA

There are big problems that change the world. If we are working together, that will make us understa...
JACK MA

What a publication can do is to help people get a clearer picture without jumping to any rash conclu...
JACK MA

We want to help U.S. entrepreneurs, small business owners, and brands and companies of all sizes sel...
JACK MA

Notebooks continued to storm ahead with a solid 54 percent year-on- year growth in the first quarter...
BRYAN MA

In no small part due to more affordable prices and a hot notebook market, 2005 was a particularly go...
BRYAN MA

There is a lot of untapped potential from a user perspective.
BRYAN MA

As the Internet becomes more tightly woven into everyday life, an increasing number of consumers wil...
BRYAN MA

It really comes down to who's listening to audio streams today and how often. Many of us listen to r...
BRYAN MA

The second quarter was still really good for them.
BRYAN MA

Nah, I'm not one of those 'hip-hop is dead' people. I just like different artists. I nev...
REMY MA

It's not that other countries steal jobs from you guys. It's your strategy. Distribute the m...
JACK MA

Nothing is as soft as water, yet who can withstand the raging flood?
LAO MA

I stopped going to high school when I met Big Pun, which wasn't the smartest thing. So I never g...
REMY MA

The competition between me and Bill Gates, probably: Who can spend money more effectively that can d...
JACK MA

At the meeting, both parties had a candid exchange of views and discussed the chief executive's gove...
MA LIK

It has been shown that public participation can limit powerful interest groups, while competing inte...
MA JUN

Environmental problems cannot be resolved here the way they are resolved in other countries. I heard...
MA JUN

China's government is so strong on investment, so strong on exporting, but they're too weak ...
JACK MA

People are trying to act like they're balling all day with cars, their house, like there's n...
REMY MA

Regulatory failings mean that the cost of breaking the law is far below that of obeying it - busines...
MA JUN

Our focused customers are small business and young people. We did a great job in China. How can we h...
JACK MA

I think globalization is a great thing. And now a lot of people complain about globalization; a lot ...
JACK MA

White folks hear the blues come out, but they don't know how it got there.
MA RAINEY

The Chinese have made a faustian pact with the government, agreeing to forsake demands for political...
MA JIAN

The great quality of the 'Three Kingdoms' is that it seems to encapsulate and portray every ...
MA JIAN

In the beginning I just wanted to survive. For the first three years, we made zero revenue. I rememb...
JACK MA

China has leapfrogged into this information age, and Web users have grown very significantly, which ...
MA JUN

I think she was surprised by the resistance. My advice was to come from the point of view she wants ...
ALAN MA

A lot of people interested in Yao Ming were interested in Peng even. Obviously, they're looking at i...
ALAN MA

We can't go to courts in China, so we have to find alternate ways, like working with brands to t...
MA JUN

Alibaba spends money on improving the products and services, not on kickbacks. That's a good thi...
JACK MA

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

Nobody wanted to believe Jack Ma.
JACK MA

If major companies sourcing in developing countries care only about price and quality, local supplie...
MA JUN

I'm kinda secretive, and I can't even say secretive because of my son. He's the type, li...
REMY MA

In some cases, it's not just about cleaning up the factories. It's about cleaning up the nea...
MA JUN

Love is a trivial thing. It comes and goes, just as the tide ebbs and flows. However, true love last...
NICOLE MA

They hear it come out, but they don't know how it got there. They don't understand that's life's way...
MA RAINEY

More than half of the caves are not protected by the system, including some very precious ones.
MA XUELI

About 98 percent of villagers first come to me when they get sick. They only go to a county hospital...
MA WENFANG

If you want to invest in us, we believe customer number one, employee number two, shareholder number...
JACK MA

As rural areas benefit from the central government's new drive to build a 'new socialist countryside...
MA XIAOHE

If English was good enough for Jesus Christ, then it's good enough for Texas.
MA FERGUSON

They put huts up and drill into pipes underneath. Many we don't find.
MA WEIYA

GDP has been understated for the last three to four years.
MA JUN

This is the case to set a precedent. For the first time, there is a legal basis for public participa...
MA JUN

The January number surprised on the upside, and the February number should be even stronger because ...
MA JUN

The objective is to slow down investment growth and loan growth which were higher than the targets s...
MA JUN

Cutting prices is not enough -- it's time to make your services free and affordable for all of China...
JACK MA

You were given the precious gift of life; do something useful with it and do not waste what you have...
NICOLE MA

It's good because we can 'join the battle with lighter backpacks' now and finally we don't have to f...
MA PEILAI

I believe the most important thing for the media is to be objective, fair, and balanced. We should n...
JACK MA

We have all these politicians that claim they're pro-life and that say women should not be able ...
REMY MA

The song 'Conceited' on 'There's Something About Remy' was inspired by people al...
REMY MA

China's energy is very much focused on coal, and the economy is very focused on heavy industry, ...
MA JUN

Criminal punishments will be meted out, including the death penalty.
MA WEIYA

The police will show these gangs no leniency, even though some are under the protection of local gov...
MA WEIYA

Theft of crude oil is rampant in some regions.
MA WEIYA

Criminal punishments will be meted out, including the death penalty, as stealing oil in some areas h...
MA WEIYA

Oil issues in a large, developing country like ours with relatively few of its own reserves, impact ...
MA WEIYA

While cheap products are exported to western countries, the waste is dumped mostly in China's ba...
MA JUN

We copied laws and regulations from western countries, but enforcement remains weak, and environment...
MA JUN

Year 2008 wiped out $19.2 trillion in US income... What if the money was spent on the Midwest of the...
JACK MA

Those who dream only by night are harmless. It is those who make their dreams happen by day that are...
NICOLE MA

Whatever you perceive that I have said is probably the opposite of what I meant. Take some time to t...
NICOLE MA

I was always really smart in school. My whole family is smart. We have 'Jeopardy' challenges...
REMY MA

Apple has made this commitment that it's a green company. So how do you fulfill your commitment ...
MA JUN

Globalised manufacturing and procurement mean that a lot of high-polluting, heavy duty jobs are tran...
MA JUN

Four years ago, we were naive; there was fierce fighting, ... Now all of us are survivors. We are mo...
JACK MA

In terms of sensitive phrases, we will use laws and regulations to deal with this.
JACK MA

China's search market is very big.
JACK MA

Yahoo today is not a portal. Yahoo today is a search engine.
JACK MA

I would do the same thing. I would let the government take him.
JACK MA

I'm not a political group. I'm a businessman.
JACK MA

We went to the library a lot, and I let them just read whatever they liked. On Sundays they went to Barnes & Noble to read new books. Now, it's their favorite place.

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We went to the library a lot, and I let them just read whatever they liked. On Sundays they went to Barnes & Noble to read new books. Now, it's their favorite place.

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