From humble beginnings to success.

6.  New Billionaire Jack Ma from Alibaba:
Before I founded Alibaba, I invited 24
friends to my house to discuss the business
opportunity.
After discussing for a full two hours, they
were still confused -
The verdict: 23 out of the 24 of my
friends & family in the room told me
to drop the idea,
China's online retail behemoth Alibaba Group
announced that it had "become the largest retail
economy in the world" at the end of its fiscal year
on March 31 2016.
"We used 13 years to demonstrate the
power of a different business model
compared with brick-and-mortar retailers,”
1999

7. Jack Ma - Alibaba
 People lose out in life because of these 4 reasons:

1. Being myopic (Narrow Minded) to opportunity
2. Looking down on opportunities
3. Lacking understanding
4. Failing to act quickly enough
You are poor, because you have no ambition.
Ambition is living a life of great ideals;
a magnificent goal in life that must be realized.
In this world, there are things that are deemed unfathomable, but there is
nothing in this world that cannot be done.
The depth of one's ambition determines the potential of one' future.

12. Jeff Bezos- Amazon Founder
 1. Think long-term meaning 5 - 7 years, not 5 - 7 months.
 2. It's ok to make mistakes but it's not ok to be timid.
 3. Be first in a big market. It's easy to think now that Amazon
was first in a big market, but people assumed at the time they
were in a niche market facing established players. But Bezos
always had grand ambitions for his company and saw the
opportunity.