Jack Ma: The future has come

Chapter 16 Young people are the future (3)
I'm one of those people who doesn't seem to succeed.When I was young, my parents, classmates, and teachers didn’t think I would be successful in the future. As a result, I did well later, turning around like a character in a TV series, and I felt very powerful.In fact, I am no different from many people. We are all poor children, and it is the times that made me what I am today.In my opinion, reading thousands of books is not as good as traveling thousands of miles. Everyone sees things differently.Some people like to read books, and I like to watch people; some people like to listen to music, but I prefer to look at different countries and cultures in the world.Everyone's ideas are different, some people have thought about it and they have done it; some people have thought about it, and then they start to do it bit by bit.

Many people say that you are amazing because you have done Alibaba, Taobao, Alipay, and a lot of things.I want to tell everyone that this is not done by me, but by my team and a group of people.However, there is no doubt that today's Alibaba, Taobao and Alipay are all our ideas for the future 14 years ago, but today we can see that it has become a reality.If you want to succeed tomorrow by doing today, such a thing is basically impossible.Unless you were born in the family of Hui Wing-mao, chairman of the board of directors of Hong Kong World Trade Group, you have no chance and no one will help you.

Some people will feel that they are so unlucky that no one will help them when doing things.However, it is normal for no one to help you, and it is not normal for someone to help you. Why do you want to be helped by others?Someone started a business and said, "I'm so unlucky that I can't borrow money."Let me tell you, it is normal not to be able to borrow money, but it is not normal to borrow money. Who will give you such an opportunity?

When I went to Europe, I found that many young people in Europe feel that they have no opportunities now and are very lost.The same goes for our young people in China.I was also confused when I was young.I've been told that I'm too confused to do anything.I asked him how old he was and he said 26.Let me tell you, I didn't know what I wanted to do until I was 28.There is no shame in being confused, we have all been confused, no matter how capable we are today, Bill Gates was also confused.This is a matter of fact.

As big a heart is, so many things can be done

Everyone should know that being a person requires emotional intelligence, intelligence, and courage to take responsibility.I believe that the IQ of the younger generation must be much higher than their parents.I don't have a high IQ. If I had a high IQ, I probably wouldn't start a business.Because I didn't study very well, I couldn't find a good job, so I had to do it myself.My EQ is not high either.How did the high EQ come about?Suffering, failure, frustration, confusion, pain, disappointment, all these together can create a high emotional intelligence.Courage is also very important. Do you have the courage and dare to take responsibility?If you are willing to act for yourself, you are an ordinary person; if you are willing to act for five people, you may be the leader of a team; if you are willing to act for 5 billion people, you are a national leader.

As big a heart is, so many things can be done.Of course, no one person in the world can do everything.Back then, I hated Bill Gates, who was so successful and took away the best opportunities; I also hated those rich people, I think successful people are fools, because they have good parents and good parents. Chance.But looking back, many people today also hate us, thinking that if they were born 15 years earlier, when the Internet was just starting to develop, they would have succeeded.

When I started my business, I invited more than 1994 friends to my home and said that I wanted to start the Internet. That was at the end of [-].At that time, only one person agreed, and everyone else objected, "This is completely unreliable", "Jack Ma, you don't understand computers, you don't understand management, and it doesn't matter if you don't have money. Why do you want to start a business?" Start a business?To this day, I can’t explain it clearly, but I always feel that it’s hard not to do this thing, so I want to give it a try, and if I can’t do it, I’ll talk about it, so I took action.

But I also want to tell you that not everyone will succeed in starting a business.Why don't they all succeed?Because to be successful, not only depends on how talented a person is, but more importantly, he must have an excellent team, he must do what he loves, he must persist, and he must have time.No one succeeds easily.Today in China, the very interesting phenomenon is mass entrepreneurship and innovation, and great changes have taken place in the whole society. This is an opportunity.

We are so lucky to be here today.You said: Ma Yun, you go all over again, are you still coming?I definitely won't come, because if I do it all over again, I will definitely not be able to do what I am today.When others complained and objected, we persevered, and it took us 15 years to get to where we are today.Today, if I must start a new business, I must find a good boss and a good team, and start a business with them.This is also fun, and it is also a kind of entrepreneurship, not necessarily being your own boss.It's good to be your own boss, but it's also good to follow a good person.

The secret of success: Optimism, Positivity, Persistence

There has never been a better era than today's.I didn't fool you, listen to my analysis.

I don't think about how to get rich quickly, how to get rich quickly. I used to think about it when I was young, but I don't think about it now.Many people say that Alibaba invests indiscriminately and cannot understand it.If everyone can understand, then what else do we do?If many people pay attention to today, then you have to look at 10 years later; if most people focus on 10 years later, then you have to look at today, because looking for opportunities must go against the trend.Many people today are impetuous and hope to succeed immediately, so you should think "I will succeed in the future"; when everyone wants to succeed in the future, you have to be more down-to-earth today.Opportunity is a check and balance.However, no matter what the objective conditions are, opportunities must be grasped by yourself.

Doing business is to rely on the market, there is no way.Do you listen to the mayor or the market?In principle, you have to listen to everything, but I choose to listen more to the market, and to the needs of the market and customers.Sometimes, the mayor may not be right.The same goes for starting a business, you and your parents will have different perspectives.When I started my business, my family members disagreed. If I don’t want to be a good university teacher, why start a business?Are you hoping to get rich?Look at your appearance and you won’t get rich—people who get rich have big ears, but your ears are small, so why should you get rich?Because I love starting a business, it doesn't matter if it succeeds or not.

I want to prove that if Ma Yun can succeed, then 80% of young people in China are likely to succeed.We have not received a penny from the government, we have not received a penny from the bank, and no one is willing to lend us a penny; we are not famous college students, we are all ordinary college students.

In the society, I found that people who are not good enough in reading do not have many opportunities, but successful people may not always have good grades.Some people are not born to read, my brother can't read, and I can't read.Some people are born to read and never forget.Don't compare this kind of skills. If you can't read your books, you won't necessarily be worse than you in society.In the future, if everyone has a child, and your child really can’t read, then train his EQ to make him a little higher, and people with high EQ will also have opportunities; let him have a sense of teamwork, know how to be grateful, and know how to be in awe.

Let me tell you that I have had the honor of communicating with Buffett, Bill Gates, and Soros, and I found that they all have many qualities worthy of our study.First, they are optimistic.It’s rare to hear them complain, not to say they don’t complain, everyone complains from birth, but we should look at the future optimistically and positively, they just find opportunities when people complain.Second, they are very active, they have the courage to take responsibility and dare to act.Third, they can persist more than ordinary people.If one day you start a business or join an entrepreneurial team, when you or your boss find it difficult to persevere, you go home and sleep, and get up the next morning to continue working.Few people have seen me cry, because I have no time to cry, I can only make my opponent cry.If we want to give up, we have thought about giving up at least 15 times in the previous 1000 years.However, we said to ourselves that we might make it out if we endured it a little longer, and we did.Therefore, I want to tell everyone to look at the future optimistically, actively look for opportunities, and be persistent and responsible!

In the next 30 years, two words will be indispensable in any industry, one is "creation" and the other is "new".Innovation is at the heart of the future.You must think about whether you can be different from others, how to be different, and who.If you understand these questions, you are likely to succeed.Entrepreneurship is a very difficult road, and it is meaningless to fool everyone into starting a business.There are too many people in this world to start a business, and everyone has their own choice.If you think this person is good, just like buying a stock, you follow him to start a business and help him start a business; if you want to become a stock, then unite a group of people by your side to work hard for your ideal, good.

Editor's note:

On August 2015, 8, Jack Ma gave a keynote speech to nearly 8 people in the "One Family Hong Kong Youth Innovation and Entrepreneurship Exchange Group" at the Beijing Union University Gymnasium.

6.30. After [-] years, if you don’t forget your original intention, you will be successful

Tsinghua University is one of the very amazing universities in China, although in my mind the best university in China is Hangzhou Normal University (Hangzhou Normal University).Hangzhou Normal University taught me the ability to learn and acquire knowledge.Tsinghua University is also very good, but even Tsinghua University can never teach you enough knowledge, and the knowledge in society is inexhaustible.Today, I see many bright smiling faces of Tsinghua graduates, but I want to say that 30 years later, if you can not forget your original intention and still have such bright smiling faces, then it will be considered success.

I took the college entrance examination for three years.I got 1 point in math in the first year, it’s true, 19 in the second year, and 89 in the third year, but I never gave up.I give you a reminder and a suggestion.The reminder is: Even if you graduated from Tsinghua University, even if you have a diploma from the top university in China, it is just a piece of paper, which can only prove that your parents paid a lot of tuition for you in the past four, six, or eight years. ——This is a tuition notice, telling you that you have paid so much tuition, spent so much time, and passed many exams.The suggestion is: Although everyone graduated from Tsinghua University, please look at the students of Hangzhou Normal University with appreciation; students who graduated from Hangzhou Normal University, please also look at yourself with appreciation.Because this society is always full of changes and miracles will always happen.

Some students who study accounting said that no matter how successful you are now, you have to wait until you die in the end to see whether you have won or lost.So, after graduating from college, life has just begun.I guess many people may be very worried when they graduate, worrying about finding a good boss in the future?Can you find a good company?Or can be the boss?When I first started my business, I worried every day whether the company could survive; later, I worried about whether the company could grow; and now that the company has grown, I worry about whether it will collapse.There are more worries now than before, and we are worried all the time.In the past 30 years, I have been worrying every day, worrying that I am not working hard enough, worrying that I did not foresee difficulties, worrying that I did not seize the opportunity...

Over the past 30 years, I have insisted on three things, and I hope everyone will think about whether these three things are useful to you: first, adhere to idealism; second, adhere to the spirit of responsibility; third, adhere to the positive energy of optimism.

The tangle of the times is brewing for change

This is a tangled era.This era is full of doubts, full of all kinds of mistrust.Teachers do not trust students, and students do not trust teachers; the media does not trust the public, and the public does not trust the media; ordinary people also have various distrusts of the government.It seems that young people are omnipotent and can do everything, but when you think about it, young people can't do anything.The world seems to lack all kinds of opportunities, but upon careful observation, there are all kinds of opportunities.So, I think this is a tangled era.

Congratulations to everyone for coming to this amazing tangled era!Because tangles breed change, and we are entering an era of very rapid change.Alibaba and Ma Yun are today because of the transformation in China in the first 30 years.

In the next 30 years, China will undergo greater changes and more opportunities.As far as my industry is concerned, the world is moving from the IT era to the DT era. It seems that there is only one letter difference between IT and DT, but there are fundamental differences in the thinking, culture and society behind it.Most people still look at the world from the perspective of IT.What are the sociological characteristics of the IT era? IT is based on me, which is convenient for me to manage. DT's thinking is to focus on others, strengthen others, and support others. DT's thinking is that you will only succeed if others succeed.This is a huge change in thinking, and this change in thinking brings about a change in technology.

Young people are entangled in the current IT industry being occupied by Alibaba, Tencent, and Baidu. When we first started our business, we also felt that the opportunity was taken away by IBM, Cisco, and Microsoft.However, you have to believe that the era of change is the era of young people. After 30 years, Chinese enterprises will definitely develop better than today and stronger than tomorrow. Thirty years from now, there will be more rich people than today, 30 years from now, the culture will be more colorful than today, and 30 years from now, young people will surpass us today.This is how the world changes!
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