"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."

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

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

"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 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."

"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."

"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."

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

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"I know nothing about technology."

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

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

"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."

"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."

"Nobody wanted to believe Jack Ma."