Ma Huateng Quotes
17 quotes from Ma Huateng — Co-founder and CEO of Tencent, one of the world's largest tech companies (WeChat, QQ, gaming, fintech)..
“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.”
“If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. We knew our product had a future, but at that time, we just couldn't afford it.”
“I focused on picturing WeChat first as an impressive work of art and second as a commercial product.”
“Technology can bring benefits to the human race; humans should make good use of technology and refrain from its evil use; and technology should strive to solve the problems it brings to society.”
“When the internet was first introduced to the public almost 30 years ago, programming was a very cool thing to be a part of. While programmers rivaled each other to determine who could write the 'prettiest' code, I was more concerned with designing code that would be useful to as many people as possible.”
“Our position is not to compete with our partners but to enable them. Tencent doesn't have a mall where we charge rent.”
“The future of Tencent's development will focus on two terms: the first is technology and the second is culture. No matter how advanced technology becomes, the culture cannot be replaced.”
“China has come to the forefront of development. There is less and less room for taking the best from outside and improving on them.”
“The most important quality of a product manager is the ability to play a fool, identify problems, and then wonder, 'why so?'”
