listen every day, why your attitude is so important by jack ma

today there are a lot of books about us I don't read these books because I think this book's not about us people love to see successful stories but most of the success stories they succeed because of the mistakes I encouraging all the young people entrepreneurs to learn from the mistakes do not study successful stories successful successful stories in the Harvard Business School normally you know there are a lot of things behind you don't know but if you learn from the mistakes if you learn especially the Fearless cases studies it's going to help you what I

want to say is not about you you learn from mistakes does not mean you avoid mistakes you will learn the attitude towards these mistakes and never give up fighting again of course it's been very painful when you are rejected when you're refused I went to all around looking for money nobody give us the money I all go around looking for Partnerships nobody believe small business and e-commerce in China will work I was very painful that day and when I saw one movie Forest the gum I love that movie especially the sentence said mom said life

like a box of chocolate you never know what you're gonna get so stay full stay foolish to your dream and continue to fight so this is what we did as an entrepreneur we never complain when people complain the opportunity comes so if you can solve the complaints that is your opportunity so I love to when I talk to the entrepreneurs I feel excited when I'm sitting there listening to the the entrepreneurs talk I feel inspired I feel we are the same animal the difference between big company a small company is not about Revenue it's about

the dream the small companies have the dreams most of the big companies when they get certain size they only have kpi so if you fight only for next quarter how can you survive in such a turbulence times you have to believe the future you have to continue to the Future you have to stay focused as I said to myself early days if there are nine Rapids on the ground if you want to catch the rabbit don't change the rabbit change yourself stick to one rabbit if you have the dream stick to the dream that is

what I believe so this is what I I want to say is that Alibaba started 18 years ago we never changed our Dream We Believe e-commerce We Believe internet We Believe by helping young people helping small business and helping Empower women we will have the future the difference between last century and this Century the difference between I.T and DT is I.T Empower yourself DT Empower others when you help others you are helping yourselves this is what we believe 18 years ago 18 people in my apartment when we had this dream where we started everybody say

you guys are crazy how can you do e-commerce no infrastructure no credit system no Logistics know this know that how could you do internet we say if there's no logistic that's a building if there's no credit system let's build it that is why we need they need entrepreneurs I remember where we launched the taobao was funny when we launched about we thought we are going to have a big business in about one month but for the first five days nobody come here even shopping so the seventh College in price in my apartment we have to

buy ourselves he said we buy and the first you know the first amount where somebody came to sell no matter whatever he sell we buy them that would tell the centers of well this they really can be able to sell so more people comes out so we bought a whole house of things garbage there's no use we build up the trust we appearance of selling we learn experience of the Servicing