My advise to 25 years old make enough mistakes don't worry, You fall ,you stand up. You fall, you stand up Enjoy it, I mean, 25 years old enjoy the show, enjoy the show. From 30 to 40 years old ,you have to think very clearly, Were you working for yourself, if you really want to be entrepreneur. So 40 to 50 think about, how can you focus on things that you are good at. But when you are 50 to 60 years old work for the young people because young people can do better than you. So rely on them, invest on them making sure they're good. So 25 years old Don't worry Any mistake is an income, is a wonderful revenue for you. In the future, it's not about the competition of knowledge. It's the competition of creativity, it's a competition of imagination, it's a competition of learning, it's a competition of independent thinking .If you think like a machine the problem will come. In the past 20 years, we make people like a machine in the next 20 years, machines will look like people. So in the future it's not knowledge driven, it's the wisdom driven, it's the experience driven. In the past it's the knowledge driven and it's the manufacturing driven and in the future it's the creativity driven. I think next 30 years the world is going to change a lot.
The new technology is going to change every aspect of the world So this is what we think the world should be focusing on not only the IQ, EQ but also focus on LQ the Q of Love. Because only when you care for the others, only when you care for the others that succeed and are more successful than you are you have the chance.10 years ago internet was so good when nobody believed internet was so good. Now internet is so tough because all the smart people go to internet. So you should go to the off ground.
So I apply for jobs for 30 times ,got rejected I went for police, they say “No, you’re not good ”I went to even the KFC, when KFC came to China, come to our city - You applied? - 24 people went for the job 23 people were accepted, I was the only guy. And we went for the police, 5 people, 4 of them accepted .I was the only guy they're not receiving. So to me, being turned down, rejected Oh, by the way, I told you that I applied for Harvard for 10 times, rejected.
I learned so much about the Hollywood movies especially the- Forrest Gump - You love Forrest Gump? - I love Forrest Gump. Why do you like him? Simple .Never give up. People- people thinking he's dumb but he knows what he's doing. And I was very depressed the day... the year 2002 or 2003 in the States I was very depressed when I could not find out a way for the internet and then I watch the movie in my friend's home Forrest Gump when I see him I think, "This the guy we should learn from in what you're doing. Love it whether people like it or don't like it, be simple. And like the words, "Life is like a box of chocolates" you never know what you can get, right? I never knew I would be here talking to you, I never know. But today I made it. I told my people in my apartment 18, 15 years ago "Guys we have to work hard not for ourselves, if we can be successful 80% of the young people in China can be successful.
We don't have a rich father, a powerful uncle, we don't get one dollar from bank, one cent from government. Just work as a team. i worry about it today, young people, a lot of young people lose hope,
lose vision and start to complain We also have the same problem, when I got...It's not a good feeling being rejected by so many people We also depressed but at least later we find...that the world has a lot of opportunities. How you see the world? How you catch the opportunity? So... and Hollywood gives me a lot of inspiration .I, at the beginning I never thought...I thought when I was young I Now I know not everything is possible.
said," is possible". When you have something you have to think about you have to consider about the others, you have to consider about the customer, society, your employees, the shareholders. There are so many things that I think if you continue to work hard there's...there's possibility. It's not... if you don't do it nothing is possible. If you try to do it at least you have the hope.
Calm down, there's always a way out. And keep yourself balanced. And meanwhile, don't try to. because business is a compt... Competition is fun. Business is not a battlefield, you die or I win
We keep on fighting, we keep on changing ours self. We don’t complain. Whether you are successful or not successful .I find that when people, when they finish the job ,if they make a mistake and they fail, if they always complained to others ,this guy will never come back .If the guy only check himself ,So many people I talked to at that time for AliPay.
1999, year 2000 and even at the Yahoo time a lot of people say, "This Jack is crazy. He's- he's doing something that we don't understand." And a lot of venture capitals give you money because there is such a American model already there. But they say, Alibaba we don't see this kind of model, right? - They say Jack's crazy - yeah this is crazy guy I mean I remember my first time in Time magazine they call me crazy Jack and I, I think crazy is good we are crazy but we're not stupid. We know what we are doing but if everybody agree with me, if everybody believed my- our idea is good we have no chance.
