Jack Ma is clearly a guy to watch in global business.

He's the founder and chairman of alibaba.com - the google of China.

He started taobao.com - an auction site that put eBay out of business in China.

The list of successes goes on and many business magazines are featuring him right now, so a quick search on google or alibaba will give you lots of background on the guy.

However, I wanted to share a quote I read of his from a letter he sent his employees that for me reiterates the drive to 'being' versus 'having' as a global trend.

"If you have money, but have not turned this money into an experience to elevate your own or other people's level of happiness, then you may very well possess a lot of symbols and a mountain of very colorful paper."