In the evening of September 8th, 2017, Alibaba Group 18th Anniversary Annual Meeting was held in Hangzhou, China. And Jack Ma, chairman of Alibaba made a closing speech.
The speech can be condensed into 15 words:
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The majority of people believe because they see, while Alibaba see because we believe and it makes us what we are today.
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For the future, we are still a child.
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Idealism has driven us up to today, we can lose everything but idealism.
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Alibaba has become 21th economic entity in the world. While we hope to be the 5th in the future, not for scale, but for social responsibility and world mission.
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We must become the catfish that accelerates development of all industries.
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With the aim of becoming a Chinese company that is respected by the world, in the next 5-10 years we are not to surpass others, but to help others solving future problem.
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Globalizationis unstoppable.
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Technology shouldn’t become a tool that extends the gap between rich and poor, but should be absolutely generic and shared to all human beings.
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Customer always comes first, our most valuable fortune is customers’ trust.
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“www”means “win win win”, first win to customer, then partner, and third to our staff.
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We promise to our staff, after 10 years of perseverance, you will be the best of you.
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You may complain to company, but definitely not to customer and society.
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We must have a humble heart. Apart from platform, customer and partner, we are nobody.
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Work hard, play hard,and be grateful to family.
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Hold on to our dream. We are different and keep going for the next 84 years, because of our dream.
