Ma Huateng Quotes

“Wealth won't give you satisfaction; creating a good product that's well received by users is what matters most.”

“In America, when you bring an idea to market, you usually have several months before competition pops up, allowing you to capture significant market share. In China, you can have hundreds of competitors within the first hours of going live. Ideas are not important in China – execution is.”

“The leader of the market today may not necessarily be the leader tomorrow.”

“You need to have extraordinary wisdom to be the forerunner.”

“I think every Internet user likes personalization.”

“At Tencent, we may be businessmen, but we are still chasing our IT, our science. We are still striving to create something really cool, trying to create things we couldn't even imagine without our new technologies. I am still clinging to this enthusiasm.”

“Think of yourself as an insensitive, nitpicking, irritable fool to use the product.”

“Users are innocent for they can not really make sure if their information is safe or not.”

“I think Steve Jobs is my idol.”