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Entrepreneurship Quotes
"Convert your fans into your customers by adding value to what you do."
"Being an entrepreneur is like eating glass and staring into the abyss."
"Fortunately we're not a public company - we're a private group of companies, and I can do what I want."
"I call Alibaba '1,001 mistakes.' We expanded too fast, and then in the dot-com bubble, we had to have layoffs. By 2002, we had only enough cash to survive for 18 months. We had a lot of free members using our site, and we didn't know how we'd make money. So we developed a product for China exporters to meet U.S. buyers online. This model saved us."
"What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?"
"My job is making money, helping other people make money. I am spending money, trying to make sure more people get rich, because you cannot spend a lot of money, right? So my job is spending money, helping others. This is a headache."
"Employment deprives you of innovations."
"What's breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?"
"People have come to the erroneous conclusion that if they're not willing to start something separate, world-changing, and risky, they have no business starting anything. Somehow, we've fooled ourselves into believing that the project has to have a name, a building, and a stock ticker symbol to matter."
"In the beginning I just wanted to survive. For the first three years, we made zero revenue. I remember many times when I was trying to pay up, the restaurant owner would say, 'Your bill was paid.' And there would be a note saying, 'Mr. Ma, I'm your customer on the Alibaba platform. I made a lot of money, and I know you don't, so I paid the bill.'"
"Start lifting your brand off the ground with an excelling mentality becoming best at what you do. You can't afford to be an average person although you may have begun from a level below average."
"I don't create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done."
"I don't create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done."
"Your dreams can earn you money and provision when you don't only have fans, but customers."
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