Jack Ma's Ultimate Advice for Students & Young People - HOW TO SUCCEED IN LIFE

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摘要

TLDRThe speaker offers a series of life lessons based on his personal experiences and observations. At 25, individuals are encouraged to make mistakes and embrace failures as valuable learning experiences. For those aged 30 to 40, it's crucial to consider whether they are working towards personal entrepreneurship. From 40 to 50, focusing on honing skills and areas of strength is important, while ages 50 to 60 should prioritize investing in and supporting younger generations. The future, according to the speaker, is not about knowledge-driven success but rather creativity, imagination, and independent thinking. Several personal anecdotes, such as being rejected by companies and universities, reinforce the message of resilience and persistence. The speaker emphasizes the importance of balancing business competition with creativity and not fearing failures. He advocates for focusing on the Emotional Quotient (EQ) and the 'Q of Love' (LQ) alongside traditional intelligence (IQ) to prepare for technological advancements. The speech conveys the notion that opportunities are often found in problem-solving and complaints, encouraging young people to seek innovation amid challenges.

心得

  • 💡 Make mistakes and learn from them; it's valuable experience.
  • 🤔 Evaluate personal career goals, especially if aspiring to entrepreneurship.
  • 🎯 Focus on your strengths and areas of expertise during mid-life.
  • 👥 Invest in and support younger generations as you age.
  • 🌟 The future values creativity, experience, and wisdom over mere knowledge.
  • 🚀 Adapt to new technological changes and challenges.
  • 🧠 Focus on creativity, imagination, and independent thinking.
  • ❤️ Emphasize the importance of love and caring for others.
  • 🎬 Inspired by 'Forrest Gump': persistence pays off.
  • 🔍 Opportunities often lie within solving complaints and problems.

时间轴

  • 00:00:00 - 00:05:00

    Advice to young people centers on embracing mistakes and taking risks. From 25, focus on learning and failing, as mistakes become invaluable. From 30 to 40, clearly define your work intentions, especially if desiring entrepreneurship. In your 40s and 50s, concentrate on your strengths. Post-50, support the youth who can outperform you. The future will demand creativity and emotional intelligence rather than mere knowledge. Reflecting on past internet progress, it's emphasized to shift focus when fields populate with competition.

  • 00:05:00 - 00:11:16

    Resilience and opportunities are highlighted through personal anecdotes of repeated rejections, likening perseverance to Forrest Gump's simple, unwavering faith in himself. Growth involves continuous self-improvement and avoiding blame on others. Initial disbelief in ideas like AliPay turned successful because of dedication to solving problems despite skepticism. Embrace individuality, accept setbacks as learning chances, maintain unity and optimism, and respect varying educational backgrounds. Every error is a learning point that diversifies and strengthens you upon reflection.

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视频问答

  • What is the main message for young people?

    Embrace mistakes as valuable learning experiences and focus on creativity, imagination, and independent thinking.

  • What should people focus on in their 30s?

    People should focus on thinking clearly about working for themselves if they want to be entrepreneurs.

  • What should individuals prioritize in their 40s?

    Focus on honing skills that you are good at and make those your main focus.

  • What is the advice for people in their 50s?

    Work for younger generations and support them, as they can excel beyond your capabilities.

  • What is the key to the future according to the speaker?

    The future will be driven by creativity, wisdom, experience, and love rather than just knowledge.

  • How did the speaker handle repeated rejections?

    By maintaining persistence, never giving up, and learning from failures and mistakes.

  • What values should guide entrepreneurial actions?

    Entrepreneurs should avoid fear of failure and setbacks, remain optimistic, and embrace teamwork and continuous learning.

  • What is the speaker's view on competition?

    Competition should be seen as fun and not as a battlefield; it's more about creativity and innovation.

  • Why is the speaker proud of their investment success?

    Because it allowed the creation of unique opportunities and solutions despite skepticism from others.

  • What lesson does 'Forrest Gump' teach according to the speaker?

    It teaches persistence and believing in oneself, regardless of others' perceptions.

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    My advice to the young people
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    25 years old,
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    make enough mistakes,
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    don't worry
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    You fall
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    you stand up. You fall, you stand up
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    Enjoy it, I mean, 25 years old enjoy the show, enjoy the show.
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    From 30 to 40 years old,
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    you have to think very clearly
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    Were you working for yourself
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    if you really want to be entrepreneur.
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    So 40 to 50 think about,
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    how can you focus on things that you are good at
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    But when you are 50 to 60 years old
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    work for the young people
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    because young people can do better than you.
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    So rely on them, invest on them making sure they're good.
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    So 25 years old
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    Don't worry
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    Any mistake is an income, is a wonderful revenue for you.
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    In the future, it's not about the competition of knowledge.
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    It's the competition of creativity,
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    it's a competition of imagination,
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    it's a competition of learning,
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    it's a competition of independent thinking.
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    If you think like a machine the problem will come.
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    In the past 20 years, we make people like a machine
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    in the next 20 years, machines will look like people.
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    So in the future it's not knowledge driven,
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    it's the wisdom driven,
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    it's the experience driven.
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    In the past it's the knowledge driven and it's the manufacturing driven
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    and in the future it's the creativity driven.
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    I think next 30 years the world is going to change a lot.
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    The new technology is going to change every aspect of the world
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    So this is what we think the world should be focusing on
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    not only the IQ, EQ but also focus on LQ
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    the Q of Love.
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    Because only when you care for the others, only when you care for
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    the others that succeed and are more successful than you are
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    you have the chance.
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    10 years ago internet was so good
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    when nobody believed internet was so good.
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    Now internet is so tough because all the smart people go to internet.
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    So you should go to the off ground.
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    I fail for...
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    Funny things like I failed in a key primary school test for two times
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    and I failed like three times for the middle school, middle schools.
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    No I tried, there is an examination that young people if you want to go university
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    you have to take, take the examinations.
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    So I failed three times.
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    When I graduated from university,
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    and before I, you know,
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    for three years I tried and failed in the universities.
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    So I apply for jobs for 30 times,
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    got rejected.
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    I went for police, they say “No, you’re not good”
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    I went to even the KFC,
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    when KFC came to China, come to our city
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    - You applied? - 24 people went for the job
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    23 people were accepted, I was the only guy.
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    And we went for the police, 5 people, 4 of them accepted.
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    I was the only guy they're not receiving.
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    So to me, being turned down, rejected
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    Oh, by the way, I told you that I applied for Harvard for 10 times, rejected.
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    I learned so much about the Hollywood movies
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    especially the- Forrest Gump
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    - You love Forrest Gump? - I love Forrest Gump.
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    Why do you like him?
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    Simple.
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    Never give up.
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    People- people thinking he's dumb
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    but he knows what he's doing.
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    And I was very depressed
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    the day... the year 2002 or 2003
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    in the States
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    I was very depressed when I could not find out a way for the internet
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    and then I watch the movie in my friend's home Forrest Gump
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    when I see him I think, "This the guy
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    we should learn from."
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    Believe in what you're doing.
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    Love it whether people like it or don't like it, be simple.
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    And like the words, "Life is like a box of chocolates"
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    you never know what you can get, right?
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    I never knew I would be here talking to you,
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    I never know.
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    But today I made it.
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    I told my people in my apartment
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    18, 15 years ago
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    "Guys we have to work hard
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    not for ourselves, if we can be successful
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    80% of the young people in China can be successful.
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    We don't have a rich father,
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    a powerful uncle, we don't get one dollar from bank,
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    one cent from government.
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    Just work as a team.
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    I worry about it today, young people, a lot of young people lose hope,
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    lose vision and start to complain.
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    We also have the same problem, when I got...
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    It's not a good feeling being rejected by so many people
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    We also depressed
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    but at least later we find...
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    that the world has a lot of opportunities.
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    How you see the world?
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    How you catch the opportunity?
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    So... and Hollywood gives me a lot of inspiration.
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    I, at the beginning I never thought...
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    I thought when I was young I said,
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    "Everything is possible".
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    Now I know not everything is possible.
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    When you have something you have to think about
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    you have to consider about the others, you have to consider about the customer,
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    society,
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    your employees, the shareholders.
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    There are so many things that
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    I think if you continue to work hard there's...
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    there's possibility.
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    It's not... if you don't do it
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    nothing is possible.
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    If you try to do it at least you have the hope.
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    Calm down, there's always a way out.
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    And keep yourself balanced.
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    And meanwhile, don't try to...
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    because business is a compt... Competition is fun.
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    Business is not a battlefield, you die or I win
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    Business... even if you die I may not win
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    right? So it's about, it's about fun.
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    - Yeah, - Tell them the story,
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    and tell them that if Jack...
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    I don't think in this world a lot of people be rejected more than 30 times
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    If we, you know, the only thing we never give up,
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    the only thing like, we’re like Forrest Gump.
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    We keep on fighting, we keep on changing ourself.
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    We don’t complain. Whether you are successful or not successful.
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    I find that when people, when they finish the job,
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    if they make a mistake and they fail,
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    if they always complained to others,
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    this guy will never come back.
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    If the guy only check himself,
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    Yeah. Something wrong with me here, something wrong with me there.
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    This guy has hope.
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    So many people I talked to at that time for AliPay, they say
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    "this is the stupidest idea you have ever got."
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    But I say, "I don't care if it's stupid or clever as long as people use it"
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    Now we have 800 million people
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    using this AliPay.
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    1999, year 2000 and even at the Yahoo time
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    a lot of people say, "This Jack is crazy.
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    He's- he's doing something that we don't understand."
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    And a lot of venture capitals give you money
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    because there is such a American model already there.
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    But they say, Alibaba we don't see this kind of model, right?
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    - They say Jack's crazy - yeah this is crazy guy
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    I mean I remember my first time in Time magazine
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    they call me crazy Jack
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    and I, I think crazy is good
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    we are crazy but we're not stupid.
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    We know what we are doing
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    but if everybody agree with me, if everybody believed my- our idea is good
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    we have no chance.
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    So that's... the money we raised, we're very thankful.
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    So, when our investors make a lot of money,
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    I feel proud and honored.
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    Everybody is made unique and different
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    so you must have a unique and different way.
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    A lot of people today have a lot of complaints
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    say, "I don't have opportunity."
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    I complained a lot when I was young
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    And suddenly I realized complaining does not solve any problem
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    where the opportunity always in the place where people complain
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    there are so many, if there are so many opportunities in the world in this world
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    because there are so many complaints.
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    If you can solve the complaint, one of the complaints
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    that’s the opportunity
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    so this is what we- we made
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    I think young people if my advice is to be an entrepreneur
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    don't be scared of failure, of setbacks
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    and don't give up.
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    When we start the business,
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    we had 18 founders including me
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    17 of them, most of them my students
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    and most of them...
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    Well, today people think, these 18 people, the smartest people in China
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    We don't think we were smart.
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    Honestly,
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    we all graduate from the very poor schools.
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    The only thing we did
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    we were very united, we all believed in the future,
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    we are all optimistic,
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    and we learn through mistakes,
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    we never give up.
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    If you graduate from famous university
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    please,
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    respect the people who graduate from the poor schools.
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    Those people like us graduate from poor universities
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    please respect yourself.
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    We have chance
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    we came today to...now
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    We made so many mistakes
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    people say, "You are lucky" Yes, we are very lucky.
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    We took only 19 years to today's size
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    But we have gone through so many tough situations.
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    We made so many mistakes
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    that people cannot even imagine.
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    In probably 19 years, you have gone through so many tough experiences
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    and that will make you different.
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