Businessman Quotes

What kind of business world are we living in?

Today the financial market is no good, but the money is there.

The very important thing you should have is patience.

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

Nobody wanted to believe Jack Ma.

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

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

I'm a normal guy.

I want people to learn what democracy means.

I think Yahoo is a great company, with great assets.

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 know nothing about technology.

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

I don't care about revenues.

I am going to enjoy some other things apart from business.

I absolutely don't have $20 billion. But I'd love to, right?

A peace talk is always difficult, always complicated.

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

We are opening up an enormous new era in archaeology. Time capsules in the deep oceans.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

I disliked singing in English and neither liked the story nor the character of Cressida.

I am convinced that in the arts, committees are useless.

Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.

To me, no one has fully cracked the code on social recruiting yet.

Think about the way most companies currently hire. You post a job and then get blind resumes in response. This should be a social experience.

The West coast money and the East coast money, in an ever-increasing manner, is finding its way to Chicago.

The big success stories - Facebook, Zynga and Twitter - are leading to investing in ideas on a napkin, because no one wants to miss out on the next big thing.

Studying doesn't have to happen in a silo. It can be a social experience. You can engage with your friends and family to find out the answer to a tough question or have someone explain it to you. You can also study anywhere you happen to be and on any device.

My weeks tend to differ pretty dramatically.

I've been part of founding three companies that have gone public. It doesn't seem like a big number, but it's actually a lot.