Monday Morning Team Motivation | Jack Ma Life Story ( CEO of Alibaba) | Goal Quest — Transcript
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- 0:01i did not have a rich father
- 0:02[Music]
- 0:04not from uh you know well educated i
- 0:07said i tried
- 0:08three times for university all failed
- 0:11for the last time
- 0:12i went to the teachers college which was
- 0:15considered
- 0:16the third or fourth class of my city
- 0:20but i think that is the best university
- 0:22i've ever had
- 0:23better than harvard and wharton i
- 0:26applied for harvard for 10 times
- 0:28all failed they don't want to see me you
- 0:30know terrible
- 0:32and i i think that is a normal life
- 0:36it was so difficult at that time i was
- 0:38so frustrated
- 0:40because i taught in the university my
- 0:43pay was ten dollars a month
- 0:46was not easy but i believe that
- 0:48something
- 0:49something is waiting for me there and i
- 0:52have to work hard
- 0:53to prove myself that was the tough
- 0:56experience
- 0:58and i never thought i was smart nobody
- 1:00believed that i could be successful
- 1:02because everybody would say well this
- 1:03guy think differently think
- 1:05crazy you know they think about
- 1:07something never work nobody agree with
- 1:09as i said i believe it because i saw the
- 1:11computer in 1994 when i went to usa
- 1:14i think this thing could be big
- 1:17i never thought it would be that big
- 1:19like today
- 1:20honestly people say you're smart you
- 1:22have a big vision
- 1:24i'm lucky to know a lot of famous people
- 1:27bill gates warren buffet the jack welch
- 1:31larry page mark zuckerberg i would like
- 1:33to share with you
- 1:35the difference between those people and
- 1:37other people they are
- 1:38always optimistic for the future
- 1:41they never complain they always try to
- 1:46solve
- 1:46the problems of the others and i think
- 1:50where is the opportunity the opportunity
- 1:52lie always lies
- 1:54in the place where people complain
- 1:58some people sit there complain you think
- 2:01if i can solve that
- 2:02complaint that's the opportunity because
- 2:05when everybody agrees
- 2:06why this opportunity should be yours
- 2:09because a lot of people don't agree with
- 2:10it
- 2:11and you think this is good think
- 2:13carefully and find a group of people
- 2:15working together and making sure the
- 2:18people working with you together
- 2:20believe the dreams whether investors
- 2:22believe in this or not
- 2:24whether your friends believe it or not
- 2:26whether your parents believe it or not
- 2:28that's not important you believe it your
- 2:31team believe it and work
- 2:33day and night on this that's all the
- 2:35things happens
- 2:37everybody is the same because we are
- 2:40start from the same line
- 2:43the best the best assets you have
- 2:47is that you are young don't complain
- 2:51let the other people complain those
- 2:53people complain
- 2:54those people who still think about
- 2:57how you can make things different use
- 3:00your own brain to think
- 3:02is that an opportunity inside is there
- 3:05anything i can do that make the
- 3:06difference
- 3:07think about this and then when you think
- 3:10about this
- 3:11study do it i saw a lot of people young
- 3:13people have
- 3:14fantastic ideas every evening but in the
- 3:17morning they go to the office
- 3:18again make the move make the action
- 3:22to everybody to any person tomorrow is
- 3:26new
- 3:26[Music]
- 3:27you have to work very hard right either
- 3:30work for the others
- 3:31or work for yourself and i choose the
- 3:34way work am i for myself
- 3:36but working for myself that means
- 3:38working for the society if you really
- 3:40want to work for yourself
- 3:41think about the others making sure you
- 3:44help
- 3:45others because only when the other other
- 3:48people are successful
- 3:49when the other people happy you'll be
- 3:51successful
- 3:52you will be happy
- 4:01you
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