GREATEST SUCCESS STORY (Jack Ma)

Alibaba, the enormous Chinese e-commerce company, began trading on the New York Stock Exchange last week. At its helm is founder Jack Ma, a charismatic leader who started the company with 18 friends out of his small apartment in 1999, in Hangzhou.Although Ma is no longer CEO of Alibaba, he is still the face of the company. Ma has succeeded because he is relentless and some of his quotes illustrate this .

"We will make it because we are young and we will never, never give up."

"The dark days at Alibaba": "If you don't give up, you still have a chance. And when you are small, you have to be very focused and rely on your brain, not your strength."