Posted on 09/23/2014 7:33:32 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
What the hell is an Alibaba?
Creating some website does not mean that you have a product, something of value, or even something other than a flash in the pan.
Even pets.com, Friendster, Myspace and AOL are not what they were in decades past.
“Come to my seminah...”
His edict is correct...you are what you are make of your life..no question..nothing new there
two caveats
one is China is something folks here seem to forget..crony Socialist pseudo capitalism far more rigged than here.you can die you make the wrong decisions and piss off or not pay the right folks..zero Justice
financial success at the expense of family is no success for me...i paid that price with my first set of family.it wasn’t worth it... not even close
I wish all young go for the brass ring freepers the best of luck...i sure took advantage of my 20s and 30s
reach your dreams but if you’re alone at the top whats the point
just an old mans looking back perspective...and I’ve done ok but I’d live in a trailer in the sticks eating potted meat and cheap crackers if it meant keeping my wife and five children close versus being truly rich..i know super rich..usually family is compromised...some private jet sorts I have known just live from continent to continent with tutors and take family along
like liveaboard yacht life
I beg to differ.....I guarantee his underwriters had to give blocks at subscription prices to Chinese govt party members
i is not freedom
these folks are worse than Putin in my view and growing stonger
Exactly. Customer #1, Employee #2, Shareholder #3.
It would be interesting to introduce Jack Ma to Arthur T. Demoulas.
35 was about the age I was completely broke. The shop I worked at closed down, I was hit with a medical emergency, lost my house, and had nothing in my pockets or bank account.
Now, half a decade later I have 6 CNC machines running with 3 excellent tool and die employees and expanding my business in to Easter Europe. Ma is absolutely right. Being broke is a situation you can change. You don’t have to sit around and feel sorry for yourself. It is a sad state of affairs so many people are on welfare in this nation. So many CHOSE to be on welfare. AND they vote for their slave masters that continue to give them free stuff. AND we’re importing the world’s poor to put on welfare.
Mark 8:36 “For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?”
Well I wan’t 35 when life handed me blows beyond what I myself could handle....when you’re solo and life hits like that you go down pretty fast.....But I fought hard...even sold my furniture from the front yard..then my home until all left was what could fit in my car...and me.
Funny thing, when all the “stuff” you’ve accumulated is gone it ends up quite freeing....I moved..got a job in less then two weeks...(told them I’d work straight commission)...and within a month had a small apartment...from then on it was back on my feet.
Today I have a small apartment...very nicely done...’more’ than ample income, good savings, and will be fully debt free by the end of this year!....and I did not get any welfare assistance throughout, though I understood I could have done so for a time.
I think faith in God makes it ‘all’ possible....as long as you co-operate with him.
Funny how some of the left wing leaning financial analysts at CNBC just fawn over this guy. Considering his hero is Forrest Gump, you think he would chalk some financial success up to fate and chance.
Yup.
Which is why my portfolio is void of tech stocks, the 2014 boom just like the one in the late '90's is destined for bust.
Even Apple (AAPL) is two bad products away from a 90% correction.
No one is against his being successful, they’re against his being an a-hole about it.
Probably seriously messed up and impossible to live with. A financial megalomaniac.
I was thinking the same thing. Money isn't everything, but if you desire financial security and don't have it, it IS your fault. Jack Ma is exactly right.
I didn’t read anything that indicated he was being an a-hole about it. Some people are just afraid of the truth.
It is worse than that.
China is structured to grow. America grew for quite a while, but is now shrinking.
We need to structure our country, to grow again. We need to, as Americans.
We have frittered away a huge lead. Everyone is building up China right now.
Everyone.
Yeah, like Ebay. And Amazon. Just websites after all.
Or Walmart for that matter. They don’t have a product, they just sell stuff other people make.
You sound jealous.
If only someone like you would tell us how.
Thank you.
And some of the happiest, most successful people in this world - are poor and broke.
I truly feel sorry for a billionaire who would give up up marriages and families just to add another zero to their net worth.
“What good does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, but loses his soul?”
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