“When I was starting out, I thought about how the Internet is global an...” — Jack Ma Quote

“When I was starting out, I thought about how the Internet is global and that we should have a global name, a name that's interesting. At that time, the best name was Yahoo! Suddenly I thought, 'Alibaba is a good name.'”

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

“When we started the e-commerce, nobody believed that China would have e-commerce because people believed in 'guang-shi,' face-to-face, and all kinds of network in traditional ways. There's no trust system in China.”

“We are going to have to have some kind of a grand global economic reordering. I'd like to be a part of it. I've studied this.”

“My films are very rooted in specific people's point of view. Some film-makers give a more global point of view, like God looking down at the characters.”

“While other countries may espouse the liberal utopian dream of a global community, it's usually only to get the richer countries to pay more money for the world's problems.”