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Lyrics & Translation

[English]

i didn't have a rich father

i tried it three times for university

all failed

i applied for harvard for 10 times all

failed they don't want to see me

for the last time i went to the

teacher's college

which was considered the third or fourth

class

of my city so i applied jobs

for 30 times got rejected

it was so difficult at that time i was

so frustrated

because i taught in the university my

pay was ten dollars a month

because i could not find a good job in

1994 discuss that i'm going to do

something called internet and 23 of them

against it they say this is a stupid

idea

we have never heard about internet and

you know nothing about computer

and i never thought i was smart

nobody believed that i could be

successful because everybody say well

this guy

think differently thinker crazily you

know they think about something never

work

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i tried to borrow 3 000 u.s dollars from

the banks

took me three months but i still cannot

get it

we talked to over 30 or 40 venture

capitalists

everybody said no forget it a lot of

people said alibaba is a terrible model

as i said i believe it i think this

thing could be big

if we keep on working i never thought it

would be

that big like today but i believe that

something

something is waiting for me there and i

have to work

hard to prove myself that was the tough

experience

so we gathered 50 000 us dollars from 18

founders

we started for the first three years we

do not have

even one dollar revenue from our

business

what's not easy you don't make any money

you've got extraordinary claims and yet

you make

nothing that's internet yes but what's

the point

are you a millionaire no no do you want

to be

fun well i think i hope

but why it keeps on going ahead

going forward because i received

lots of email of thanks from the

customer they say

this is such a great thing we cannot pay

you

but this thing helped us if you keep on

helping us

one day you will be successful and i

believe this

little by little we build up our

business little by little we build up

our ecosystem

of the infrastructure and now after 16

years

we have an alibaba group we have a tmall

group we have a taobao group we have

alipay and people that you are so smart

how could you make a company like that

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bill gates warren buffet the jack welch

larry page mark zuckerberg the

difference between those people and

other people

they are always optimistic for the

future

they never complain they always try to

solve

the problems of the others when you're

optimistic

it's always opportunity people same here

today

jeff where is the opportunity i don't

have a job i don't have this i don't

have a debt

the best assets you have is that you

are young don't complain let the other

people complain

the opportunity always lies where people

complain

think about how you can make things

different

and then when you think about this start

to do it i saw a lot of people

young people have fantastic ideas every

evening but in the morning they go to

the office same again

if you really want to be entrepreneurial

you have to do the things

before the other people do you have to

wake up before the other people wake up

you have to be more brave than the

others

when i was young i went to hangzhou west

lake

there's a hotel many foreign visitors

visit there

and i went there every morning five

o'clock to practice my english

the foreign visitors come i practice my

english i don't know why at that time

but i found everything

the foreign visitors told me are so

different from the things

my parents told me my teacher told me

and the newspaper i read

so since then i think everything use my

own brain

use your own brain to think to everybody

to any person tomorrow is new

make the move make the action

whether investors believe in this or not

whether your friends believe it or not

whether your parents believe it or not

that's not important

you believe it your team believe it and

work

day and night on this make enough

mistakes

you fall you stand up

if you really want to work for yourself

think about the others

because only when the other people are

successful

when the other people are happy you'll

be successful

you will be happy don't worry about the

money

money follow the people people should

follow the dreams

if you have a dream just to go ahead

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you

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
university /ˌjuːnɪˈvɜːrsəti/ A2	noun - an educational institution of advanced learning
rejected /rɪˈdʒɛktɪd/ B2	verb - dismissed as inadequate or inappropriate
frustrated /ˈfrʌstreɪtɪd/ B2	adjective - feeling or expressing distress and annoyance
successful /səkˈsɛsfəl/ A2	adjective - accomplishing an aim or purpose
venture /ˈvɛntʃər/ C1	noun - a risky or daring journey or business enterprise
revenue /ˈrɛvənuː/ B2	noun - income, especially when of a company or organization
extraordinary /ɪkˈstrɔːrdəneri/ B2	adjective - very unusual or remarkable
infrastructure /ˈɪnfrəˌstrʌktʃər/ C1	noun - the basic physical and organizational structures
optimistic /ˌɒptɪˈmɪstɪk/ B2	adjective - hopeful and confident about the future
complain /kəmˈpleɪn/ A2	verb - to express dissatisfaction or annoyance
opportunity /ˌɒpərˈtuːnəti/ B1	noun - a set of circumstances that makes it possible to do something
assets /ˈæsɛts/ B2	noun - a useful or valuable thing or person
entrepreneurial /ˌɒntrəprəˈnɜːriəl/ C1	adjective - having the spirit or qualities of an entrepreneur
fantastic /fænˈtæstɪk/ A2	adjective - extraordinarily good or attractive
practice /ˈpræktɪs/ A2	verb - to perform an activity repeatedly to improve proficiency