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Alibaba Founder Jack Ma: If you’re still poor at 35, you deserve it!
Vulcan Post ^ | 09/23/2014 | Zach Ho

Posted on 09/23/2014 7:33:32 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 09/23/2014 7:33:32 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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Gee, just take a dump on the rest of the world. Classy.


2 posted on 09/23/2014 7:38:10 PM PDT by doc1019
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If advocating hard work and discipline is “taking a dump” on what’s left of our culture, then so be it.


3 posted on 09/23/2014 7:41:26 PM PDT by oblomov
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No kidding. I don’t know who this Jackma is or what Alibaba means, but he can just...


4 posted on 09/23/2014 7:43:09 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono (NRA)
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To: SeekAndFind

Brilliant! He basically started eBay-China. Most of what he did was copy and bring it together. For that, he gets a pat on the back and billions of dollars.


5 posted on 09/23/2014 7:43:27 PM PDT by boycott
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To: oblomov

I was referring to his statement “If you’re still poor at 35, you deserve it”.


6 posted on 09/23/2014 7:44:42 PM PDT by doc1019
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7 posted on 09/23/2014 7:44:46 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy ("Now is not the time for fear. That comes later.")
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The Libs will soon start not classifying Chinese as a special needs group like other minorities...


8 posted on 09/23/2014 7:45:30 PM PDT by GraceG (No, My Initials are not A.B.)
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To: doc1019

I believe Jack Ma is 100% correct.


9 posted on 09/23/2014 7:46:24 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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Millions of millions of hardworking, disciplined people are poor and will be so their entire lives. Just the way it is — but it is condescending for some rich commie who hit it lucky to declare it’s their own fault.


10 posted on 09/23/2014 7:46:38 PM PDT by Wyrd bið ful aræd (Asperges me, Domine, hyssopo et mundabor, Lavabis me, et super nivem dealbabor.)
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Good for you.


11 posted on 09/23/2014 7:46:51 PM PDT by doc1019
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There is more to life and family than working and having self discipline. Some of the hardest working people seem to have no affinity to relationships; their children are strangers to them.


12 posted on 09/23/2014 7:48:35 PM PDT by SatinDoll (A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN IS BORN IN THE US OF US CITIZEN PARENTS.)
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Alibaba is the Asian version of Amazon is projected to make $650BB in revenue. Ma has taken the company public this week and is bringing Alibaba to the American market.


13 posted on 09/23/2014 7:50:21 PM PDT by rabidralph
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To: SeekAndFind

It depends on what poor is, a lot of nurses and moms, and soldiers and sailors, and missionaries and ministers might not be dirt poor, but at age 35 are still too busy with the unimportant stuff in life to focus on their first billion, much less their 10th billion.


14 posted on 09/23/2014 7:50:47 PM PDT by ansel12
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To: Wyrd bið ful aræd

Millions of millions of hardworking, disciplined people are poor and will be so their entire lives. Just the way it is — but it is condescending for some rich commie who hit it lucky to declare it’s their own fault.


And not everyone measures their life by financial wealth. I know people on missions in Africa that wouldn’t trade places with him. They don’t have a lot of money but they’re still living an abundant life. And they’re not going to bury this man with his money. In the end, his life may not be more meaningful than he made a lot of money. That’s still to be determined.


15 posted on 09/23/2014 7:50:58 PM PDT by boycott
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This is why China is going to take our place as the world’s leading economy. The only group in the US that strives for excellence is our athletes.


16 posted on 09/23/2014 7:51:04 PM PDT by txrefugee
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Go big or go home.

He is doin’ it right.


17 posted on 09/23/2014 7:52:12 PM PDT by Delta 21 (Patiently waiting for the jack booted kick at my door.)
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Herman Cain a few years ago:

'“Don’t blame Wall Street. Don’t blame the big banks. If you don’t have a job and you’re not rich, blame yourself.”

18 posted on 09/23/2014 7:52:25 PM PDT by Theoria (I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
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To: txrefugee

So our men and women in the military strive for medocity sic ok.


19 posted on 09/23/2014 7:59:23 PM PDT by al baby (Hi MomÂ…)
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"If you’re still poor at 35, you deserve it!" I corrected the headline. You may say that it is rude, but the reality is seldom not. Deserving it is not the same as being stupid. But most of the poor are deserving and stupid. Show me a poor 40 year old and I will show you a loser. A brilliant loser, perhaps, but a loser nonetheless!
20 posted on 09/23/2014 8:06:04 PM PDT by sagar
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