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马云2014年联合国“创变者”演讲

2014年10月17日上午，亚洲协会在纽约联合国总部揭晓了首届“创变者”获奖名单并举

办颁奖典礼，马云作为唯一的中国企业家代表，位列首届“创变者”名单榜首。

他在演讲中说，“过去十五年，我常常说自己是一个瞎子骑在瞎老虎背上，不过那些骑在马

上的专家都失败了，我们活了下来。因为我们考虑的是未来，我们相信未来。我们改变自己。

我们从不抱怨别人。”以下是演讲全文：

非常感谢大家！今晚站在这里，我感到非常谦卑和光荣。我从来没想过这一生中会有机会来

到联合国。谢谢施静书女士，非常感谢亚洲协会。

Thank you very much! I'm so humble and honor to be here tonight. I never thought

that I would have a chance in my life to be at the United Nations. Thank you Jotte

and thank you very much for Asia society.

我特别想感谢Ellie关于老师的评论，当我坐在下面听你的演讲。在十二岁的时候，我自己

开始学英语，不知道为了什么，我就是爱上了这门语言。那时，每天早晨从5点开始我会

骑车40分钟，到杭州的酒店找外国游客。他们教我英语，我带他们游览城市作为交换。

I would like to thank you Ellie for the teachers comment when I sat in there and

listened to what you talked. I learnt English by mylf when I was twelve years old

for whatever reason. I don't know. I just fell in love with this language. Every

morning, from five o'clock, I rode a bicycle for fourteen minutes to the HangZhou

hotel looking for foreign tourists to teach me English. I could show them around

the city and they told me English.

从此以后，无论我学习什么，我养成了一个习惯，那就是用我自己的脑子来思考问题，多花

几分钟。当事情有可能是对的时候，等几分钟，当所有人都说不的时候，也等几分钟，仔细

地想一下事情本身。因为当你从一个不同的视角看世界的时候，你也可能用不同的方式做事。

Since then, everything I learn, I' ve got a habit: u your own brain to think about

just one more minute. When everything probably is yes, wait for one minute. when

that is probable no, wait for one minute. Think life that way becau if you look at

the world in a different way, you may do in a different way.

今晚，我深深地被所有这些创变者所鼓舞。在听他们的故事时，我意识到世界上有那么多事

情我可以做，有那么多事情我能做得更好，有那么多事情我们能一起来做。今天我不是代表

我自己，而是代表所有那些和我一起工作的小人物，小企业。

And tonight I'm so honored to be inspired by the game changer partners. I listened

to their stories, and I know there's so much things I should do and I should do

better. So many things we can do together. I think that I'm here today not reprent

mylf but reprent all the small guys, all the small business.

1995年我离开大学的时候，我告诉校长，我要做个创业者，做互联网。他问我：什么是互

联网? 我回答：我也不知道。他听我说了两个小时后告诉我，Jack，我知道你想有一番作为，

我不懂你做的事情。不过如果十年后你想回来，那就回来。我说：好，十年之内，如果我想

回来，我会回来的。我知道作为一个老师，你总会有所期待。你永远会相信未来。你相信知

识会改变人的生活，你相信并希望你的学生比你更优秀。学生是最好的产品。今天我不再是

一个老师，但我相信在公司，CEO代表“首席教育官”。因为话很多，同事们不喜欢我。

不过，我负责来说，他们负责做。

In 1995, when I left my university, I told my president of university that I am going

be an entrepreneur doing Internet. He said: 'What is Internet'? I said: 'I don't know'.

And when he listened to me for two hours, he told me: 'ok, jack, I know you want to

do something. I don't know what you want to do, but ten years later if you want to

be back, just be back. And I say: 'Ok within ten years, I will be back'. I know as a

teacher you always expect. Teacher always believe in the future. You believe

knowledge will change people's life. You believe and hope your students are better

than you are. Students are the best products. Today, I'm not a teacher, but I consider

CEO as a 'Chief Educator Officer'. My college don't like me becau I talk a lot. And I

say: I do the talk, you do the work.

在我创业的那个年代，在中国做个小企业家非常困难，我花了5个月时间才借到500美元，

而公司还是失败了。那时我没有机会，我也不知道怎样运营企业。我去注册第一家公司时，

想取名叫互联网，注册办公室告诉我，不行，字典里没有这个词，你怎么注册？你必须换个

名字注册公司。他建议我使用计算机咨询公司，可是我连计算机是什么都不知道。所以我的

第一个公司叫做杭州希望计算机咨询公司。那时很苦，我当时对科技和计算机一无所知。

When I started the business, it's so difficult to be a small business owner in China. It

took me five month to borrow five hundred dollars but I still failed. No chance and I

have no idea about how to run a business. When I went to register a company

called 'Internet'. The register officer said: 'No, there's not such a word 'Internet' in a

dictionary. How could you register a 'Interest'? You have to register another name.

He said computer consulting firm. I have no idea what computer is, so my first

company was 'HangZhou Hope Computer Consulting Firm'. It was tough, without

knowing anything about technology and without knowing anything about

computer.

过去十五年，在工作中，我常常说自己是一个瞎子骑在瞎老虎背上。不过那些骑在马上的专

家都失败了，我们活了下来。因为我们考虑的是未来，我们相信未来。我们改变自己。我们

从不抱怨别人。我相信一个道理，我告诉我的团队，我的伙伴，我们必须证明自己，因为如

果我们能成功，那80%的年轻人就都能够成功。我们没有有钱的父亲，有权的叔叔，我们

没有从政府拿过一块钱，没有从银行拿过一块钱，我们从零开始。所以我必须努力工作，不

仅是证明我们自己，也是证明我们这代人，证明互联网的力量。这就是我想和年轻人分享的。

In the past fifteen years, in working, I called mylf a blind man riding on the back

of a blind tiger. Tho experts riding on hors all failed. We survived becau we

worry about the future. We believe in the future. We change ourlves. We never

complain about others. I believe one thing and I told my team, my partner that we

have to prove ourlves becau if we can be successful, eighty percent of young

people can be successful. We haven't got a rich father; We haven't got a powerful

uncle; We haven't got one dollar from the government; We haven't got one dollar

from the banks. We start from zero. We have to work hard, not to prove ourlves

but to prove our generation and to prove Internet power. This is what I want to

share with young people.

另一个我深深相信的事情是，小就是美。如果没有帮助小人物，那么我就用互联网帮助小人

物。跨国公司被华尔街照顾得很好，只有小企业没有任何人帮助他们。如果我们为他们创造

价值，那我们就会成功。我们的哲学是如果你帮助别人成功，你就会成功。我不需要多说，

我一直是相信未来的人，相信年轻人，相信创新。

And the other thing I believe is small is beautiful. If nobody help the small guys, we

can u Internet to help the small guys. Multinational companies are taken care by

Wall Street. Only small business have nobody to take care. If we can create value

for them, then we can success. Our philosophy is also this: if you can help others be

successful and you will be successful. I don't want to talk more but I believe in the

future, believe in young people, and believe in innovation.

今天我还想谈论一件事情，就像秘书长说的，今天的世界麻烦很多。今天世界上充满了抱怨。

我在20多岁的时候也抱怨。微软、IBM、思科，他们是大企业而我们是无助的小公司因为

他们太大了。那时，我们也抱怨过。但是现在我不再抱怨了，因为我们也变成大家伙之一了。

我想告诉年轻人的是，如果大部分人都在抱怨，那就是机会所在。有些人选择抱怨，而有些

人选择改变自己，帮助改变别人。机会就在那些被抱怨的地方。我永远相信这点，我们也是

这样一步步走到今天。

Today, I want to say one thing like the cretary just said：the world is filled with

troubles. Today is a world of complain. I complain when I was twenty years old.

Microsoft, IBM, Cisco, they are big companies. We are hopeless becau they are

too big. We complained, but now I never complain becau I have a big one too.

What I want to tell the young people is when most people complain, there's the

opportunity is. Some people started to complain, some people started to change

themlves and some changed others. Where the opportunity is where the

complain start. Where's the trouble, where's the opportunity. I always believe that.

and this is how I go through.

最后也是最重要的一个事情，那就是在座的所有人都会被送一件T恤。这是一件特别的阿

里巴巴IPO 的限量版T恤。所有这些T恤都是小人物制造。这就是个小人物，小就是美的，

小就有力量。印在T恤上的是很少人知道的阿里巴巴成功密码，就像芝麻开门一样。阿里

巴巴有一个密码，那就是”梦想要有的，万一有天实现了呢？这就是阿里巴巴成功的密码，

非常感谢！

The last very important thing is I want to give you a T-shirt, another T-shirt. This

T-shirt is the special edition for Alibaba IPO. They are all made by small guys. This is

the small guy. Small is beautiful and small is powerful. But in this T-shirt, very few

people know that we have a cret code about Alibaba success just like Open

Sesame. The cret code for everybody is keeping your dream alive becau it

might come true someday. This is where the cret code is , thank you very much!