马云英语对答西方记者.doc

Here is alibaba chairman and cofounder, the man himself, Jack Ma, congratulations.First of all, you believed that Alibaba could be big even when the internet was in its earliest and ***form, what you have to say to the people who though you were crazy.Yeah, I think, you know, as we give the souvenir today that everybody should have a dream. What if that dreams come true. So I believed fifteen years ago, that internet gonna change China. Its gonna improve the world. Whether you believe it or not, whether we will succeed or not, but somebody will succeed. So if you don’t work hard, if you don’t keep on working every day, nobody has a chance. I never know that we will be here today. So…What would you do with all these new capital, would you buy Yahoo?Well, I don’t know whether they’ll sell… but ah…Would you consider it ?No, I think the very important thing is that we want to build up a company, not to buy a company. We want to make sure that our eco-system has the small guys, anything, that can help small business to grow, we will consider. Have you spoken with Marissa Mire?We talked about a couple of months ago, and yesterday she send a nice email to me, say congratulation and thanks, yeah. What are the biggest challenges of being a global company and dealing with the Chinese government? Well, being a global company dealing with any government is difficult, so it’s a great opportunity if you deal with the government well and communicate with them, listen to their problem, solve their problems, tell them your problems, that’s opportunity for communication. That’s why we survived the past fifteen years. Always try to say “In love with the government, but marry with them.” I mean , this is our philosophy. Making sure that you solve the problem they wanna solve. You said it was very important, what’s the time right, when will we see you expand significantly in the United States.We have already started helping small business in the US, in Californian, Washington DC. We sell American cherries, we sell Alaska sea food, and we wanna sell more things. We are coming here not to compete, we are coming here to help a lot of small business which I think lots of things need to be done, and it’s not about competition.Someone suggested to join the adventure with Amazon, will that ever happen? Oh, really, I heard about it from you, I’ve never heard about that. I’ll be interested talking, as always, anything, anybody that involving helping small business, we will feel excited. You have got a lot of us companies trying to expand in China, a lot of us companies have failed in China yet, CEOs , tech-leaders going there try to get a like up, what kind of mistakes are they making? I think, you know, ***every market, if it is a market economy, you have to make sure you have the &&** there, not only the professional managers. my view is that trying to make your customs happy instead of making your boss happy. Making sure that send people there enters the market have patience and have the time to do that. and what we wanna do is that we want to help a lot of small guys, because the big guys are already in China. Small guys, they need help like us. This is what we feel excited about. Alibaba is a successful part because it’s so diverse, and so *. I’m curious what kinds of ideas you have said “no” to?I’m saying “nos” to a lot of ideas, because as a CEO, I have to say no to opportunities, because if I say yes, I probably get 5000 ideas every day. But whether yes or no, everything based on the mission that helping doing business easier, if is that, we will consider. If somebody come and say, can you, we will , you know, …make a lot of money, I’m not interested. You step down the CEO a couple of years ago, you are now an executive of chairman, are you really the CEO, still? No I am the chairman. I’ve focus my time on training and developing people, I focus my time on government relationship with all the nations that helping small businesses. I focus my time on global expansion. That’s all strategic thinking. I don’t do any , you know, operation work.You surprise us all the time, Jack, what’s you next surprise? Well, it’s coming…How you gonna celebrate with your cofounders? Well, we had a big dinner last night, and everybody cried and we said, well you know, fifteen years , we never know that we could have through. As for the people we should thank for, we said we thank the customers, we thank the young, but the people is not us. So that’s why we put the young people there, 8 customers. Because we believe, after fifteen years, the purpose of working so hard is that we want to make these people successful. Because when they’re successful, our success is a result. You love to sing a Karaoke party? Yeah, we do, but ah, … I don’t have time but I will try to squeeze more time when I am getting old. Thanks, Jack Ma, congratulations. 。