JACK MA’S STORY
I did not have a rich father i tried three times for
university and all failed I applied for Harvard for ten times. All failed, they
don’t even want to see me for the last time I went to the teachers’ college was
considered the third of fourth class of my city.
I applied job for 30 times,got rejected it was so difficult at that time, I was so frustrated because I taught in the university. My pay $10 a month because I could not find a good job. in 1994 discussed that I am going to do something called internet and 23 of them against it. They said “this is stupid idea”, we have never heard about the internet and you know nothing about computer.” And I never thought I was smart.
Nobody believed that i could be successful because everybody said this guy think differently, think crazily. He will think about something that will never work.
I applied job for 30 times,got rejected it was so difficult at that time, I was so frustrated because I taught in the university. My pay $10 a month because I could not find a good job. in 1994 discussed that I am going to do something called internet and 23 of them against it. They said “this is stupid idea”, we have never heard about the internet and you know nothing about computer.” And I never thought I was smart.
Nobody believed that i could be successful because everybody said this guy think differently, think crazily. He will think about something that will never work.
I tried to borrow USD 3.000 from the banks it took me 3
months but I still couldn’t get it, we talked over 30 or 40 venture capitalist.
Everybody said no forget it lot of people said Alibaba is a terrible model. I said
I believe it, I think this thing could be big.
I never thought it would be that big like today. But I believed that something is waiting for me there and I have to work hard to prove myself. That was tough experience so we gathered $50,000 from 18 founders. We started, for the first 3 years we did not have even $1 revenue from our business it was not easy.
Why it kepts us going ahead forward because I received lots of emails of thanks from the customers they said “this is such a great thing” we cannot pay you but this thing helped us, if you keep on helping us, one day you will be successful and I believed this.
I never thought it would be that big like today. But I believed that something is waiting for me there and I have to work hard to prove myself. That was tough experience so we gathered $50,000 from 18 founders. We started, for the first 3 years we did not have even $1 revenue from our business it was not easy.
Why it kepts us going ahead forward because I received lots of emails of thanks from the customers they said “this is such a great thing” we cannot pay you but this thing helped us, if you keep on helping us, one day you will be successful and I believed this.
Little by little we built up our ecosystem of the
infrastructure and now after 16 years we have Alibaba
group, we have Tmail group,
we have Taobao group and we have Alipay group and people say “you are so smart, how
could you make a company like that.
” Bill gates, Warren buffet, Jack welch, larry page, Mark zuckerberg the different between those people and other people they are always optimistic for the future. They never complain they always try to solve the problems of the others when you are optimistic it is always opportunity, people say the same here today “Jack where is the opportunity?” “I don’t have a job. I don’t have this, I don’t have that.”
We are at the best time of this century the best assets you have is that you are young.Don’t complain let the other people complain the opportunity always lies where people complain think about how you make things different. Is there anything I can do that makes the difference and then when you think about this, start to do it. I saw a lot of people, young people have fantastic ideas every evening but in the morning they go to the office same again.
” Bill gates, Warren buffet, Jack welch, larry page, Mark zuckerberg the different between those people and other people they are always optimistic for the future. They never complain they always try to solve the problems of the others when you are optimistic it is always opportunity, people say the same here today “Jack where is the opportunity?” “I don’t have a job. I don’t have this, I don’t have that.”
We are at the best time of this century the best assets you have is that you are young.Don’t complain let the other people complain the opportunity always lies where people complain think about how you make things different. Is there anything I can do that makes the difference and then when you think about this, start to do it. I saw a lot of people, young people have fantastic ideas every evening but in the morning they go to the office same again.
Being entrepreneur,
you have to do the things before other people do, you have to wake up before
the other people wake up, you have to be more brave than the others. Use your
instinct, Everything you do is to the need of the customer, to everybody, to
any person, tomorrow is new. Make the move make the action, weather investors
believe it or not, weather your friends believe it or not, weather your parents
believe it or not, that is not important. You believe it, your team believe it
and work day and night on this.
That is how the things happen, make enough mistakes. You fall, you stand up.Any mistakes is an income it is a wonderful revenue, do not worry about the money. Money follows people, people should follow their dreams. If you have a dream, just go ahead. I think nobody can conquer the world.
We only can serve the world either work for others or work for yourself and I choose the way of working for myself. Working for myself that means working for the society if you really want to work for yourself, think about the others. Because only when the other people are successful, When the other people are happy you will be successful, you will be happy.
That is how the things happen, make enough mistakes. You fall, you stand up.Any mistakes is an income it is a wonderful revenue, do not worry about the money. Money follows people, people should follow their dreams. If you have a dream, just go ahead. I think nobody can conquer the world.
We only can serve the world either work for others or work for yourself and I choose the way of working for myself. Working for myself that means working for the society if you really want to work for yourself, think about the others. Because only when the other people are successful, When the other people are happy you will be successful, you will be happy.
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