"don't worry about the future"
Jack ma failure story:
I didn't have a rich father. I tried three times for University all failed. I applied for Harvard for ten times all failed They don't even want to see me. for the last time I went to the teachers college which was considered the third and fourth class of my city. so I applied jobs for 30 times. got rejected it was so difficult at that time I was so frustrated because I taught in the university. my pay was $10 dollar a month. because I could not find a good job. in 1994i discussed that I'm going to do something called internet and 23 of them against it.
they said : this is a stupid idea we're never heard about the internet and you know nothing about computer. and i never thought I was smart. nobody believed that I could be successful because everybody said: well this guy think differently think crazily. you know he'll think about something that will never work. I tried to borrow $3000 form the banks. it took me three month but I still cannot get it. we talked to over 30 and 40 venture capitalist. Everybody said no forget it. a lot of people said alibaba is a terrible model. as i said : i believe it. i think this thing could be big if we keep on working i never thought it would be that big like today. but I believed that something is waiting for me there and I have to work hard to prove myself. that was a tough experience. so we gathered $50,000 from 18 founders.
we started :
the first time three years we did not have even $1 dollar revenue from our business. it was not easy. you don't make any money you've got extraordinary claims. you don't make any money you've got extraordinary claims. and yet you make nothing that's internet. yes but what's the point ? are you a billionaire ? Now No. do you want to be ? well I hope. but why it keeps going ahead going forward ? Because I received lots of emails of thanks from the customers.
They say: this is such a great thing. we cannot pay you but this thing helped us. If you keep on helping us one day you will be successful. and i believed this. little by little we built up our business. little by little we built up our ecosystem of the infrastructure. and now after 16 years we have alibaba group we have a tmall group we have a taobao group we have alipay.
people said: you are so smart how could you make a company like that ? bill garet, warren buffett, how could you make a company like that ? Jack welch, larry page, mark Zuckerberg. the difference between those people and other people they are always optimistic for the future. they never complain. they always try to solve the problems of the others. when you're optimistic there's always opportunity. people say the same thing here today: jack where is the opportunity ?
I don't have a job. I don't have this i don't have that. the best assets you have is that you are young. don't complain. let the other people complain. the opportunity always lies where people complain. think about how you can make things different and then when you think about this start to do it.
I saw a lot of people young people have fantastic ideas every evening. but in the morning they go to the office same again. if you really want to be an entrepreneur, you have to do the things before the other people do. you have to wake up before the other people wake up. you have to be more brave than the others. when I was young I went to hangzhou west lake (xi lake). there is a hotel many foreign visitors visit there and I went there every morning five o'clock to practice my English. the foreign visitors come i practice my English. i don't know why at that time but I found everything the foreign visitors told me are so different from the things my parents told me, my teacher told me and the newspapers I read. so since then I think everything with my own brain. use your own brain to think. to everybody to any person tomorrow is new. make the move make the action. whether investors believe it and not. whether your friends believe it and not. whether your parents believe it and not. that's not important. you believe it, your team believed it and work day and night on this, make enough mistakes. you fall you stand up. if you really want to work for yourself think about the other's because only when the other people are successful, when the other people are happy you will be successful, you will be happy. don't worry about the money. money follows the people. people should follow their dreams. if you have a dream just to go ahead.
thank you..........
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