Quotes About Xin

#1. If you put two economists xin a room, you get two opinions, unless one of them is Lord Keynes, in which case you get three opinions.

Winston Churchill

#2. Many Chinese entrepreneurs are now donating for education; others support foundations in health care and research. None of us wants to be the richest guy in the cemetery.

Zhang Xin

#3. It's not easy to be my sons because we're very high profile. We try so hard to give them a normal life. I'm very, very tight with them about money. I don't give that money until they ask, 'I need 100 yuan for my lunch card,' and so on. So they never have extra money.

Zhang Xin

#4. Whoever first thought of imposing a library fine was indeed intelligent.

Mu Xin

#5. Thomas Hardy once advised us to record impressions more and to express ideas less. Now and then I would remember this advice.

Mu Xin

#6. Impressions are like pearls; ideas are like the string that turns the pearls into a necklace. The string is invisible, but it is not dispensable and cannot be broken.

Mu Xin

#7. Prose is like a window; fiction is like a door. But it is not uncommon that he who should come in through the door jumps in through the window.

Mu Xin

#8. Size doesn't matter, when Matter thinks big.

Robert G. Moons

#9. Isolation means a lack of growth. I grew up in China at a time when the country was completely isolated. That era is over.

Zhang Xin

#10. Chinese no longer crave so much for food and accommodation, but they do crave democracy. I stand by that. I don't know which model China will follow.

Zhang Xin

#11. I think women of our generation went through Cultural Revolution, went through hardship, coming from nowhere, and suddenly see China's amazing opportunity. So women just seized the opportunity.

Zhang Xin

#12. But it is a worry that there have been so many delays in the reform of China's state-owned enterprises. We all know that private companies are run more efficiently than state ones. These reforms are very much anticipated for the potential dynamism they could create.

Zhang Xin

#13. Did you ever find that there is room between the two opposing rules of a paradox? That space between two almost opposite rules is the ground where I play and write.

Mu Xin

#14. No economy, no company, in fact no individual can develop its full potential today without embracing two fundamental trends - globalization and digitalization. They will dominate for quite some time to come.

Zhang Xin

#15. Many Chinese companies are run like military camps with military discipline. We do not run a company that way. It does not help the creative process.

Zhang Xin

#16. Country [China] needs to continue opening up and keep connecting. It needs to realize that the world has become one. The old concept of isolation, the idea that you can solve your problems on your own does not work anymore - neither in cultural, economic, nor political terms.

Zhang Xin

#17. I feel that it would be tedious for a person to have only one life. It would be much better to have two or three lives going on simultaneously ...

Mu Xin

#18. If you ask me why I left China, it's just that I went for a stroll and strolled too far away.

Mu Xin

#19. China has consistently surprised us. When I returned from the United States many years ago, it was unimaginable that we would end up where we are now. What China has achieved defies all logic. I credit this to the hard work and enterprising spirit of the Chinese people.

Zhang Xin

#20. On the weekends, I do the usual parental things, going to the boys' football tournaments or getting out for a hike along the Great Wall.

Zhang Xin

#21. Our tenants now are companies like Uber, the taxi service, Meituan, China's version of Groupon - and a large number of startups. These companies operate in a modern way, just like their customers: They go on the Internet, look for an offer and take it.

Zhang Xin

#22. I have a profound dislike for showing off one's material wealth. This is insensitive and it is not what human hearts are made for. But what I like about China and sometimes miss in Europe is the entrepreneurial spirit of our young people, their ambition and dynamism.

Zhang Xin

#23. Freedom, freed of all external boundaries, are still confined within us--their sensitivity often causing bewilderment.

Mu Xin

#24. The first principle of modern cultures may be their connectedness. Culture is like wind and wind knows no boundary or center. Once there is a center, wind becomes a whirlwind.

Mu Xin

#25. China - if you think about what is the character of China, it's enormous scale. It's bigness.

Zhang Xin

#26. I find it hard to be labelled in this new 'super-rich' category because we all grew up with very little. The idea that 'to get rich is glorious' is really a new phenomenon. I certainly didn't grow up like that.

Zhang Xin

#27. Investors don't like uncertainty. The market is telling us that they need certainty, they need to see where the economy is heading. If the government is committed to continue the Open Door policy, they will need to come up with concrete policies and execution steps to increase confidence.

Zhang Xin

#28. But the higher our standard of living, the higher our levels of education, the further people will look around. And we can see which level of openness other societies enjoy. We are no different - we too want more freedom. The question is: How much freedom will be allowed?

Zhang Xin

#29. By day I was a slave; by night, I was a prince.

Mu Xin

#30. I don't do evening business dinners, and I don't do weekends.

Zhang Xin

#31. I watched something vanish, as if I was in a dream from which I couldn't wake.

Mu Xin

#32. It's a good thing that it is getting simpler to register a company in China, it is good that the exchange rate of our currency is getting more flexible and that it's getting easier for Chinese businesspeople to travel. All of this opens up our economy.

Zhang Xin

#33. Ideas' can be only in the distant background of a work of art, something like a very low horizon. In the middle distance and foreground ... there shouldn't be any 'ideas' visible.

Mu Xin

#34. Quickly, after I landed in England, I found out ways to get scholarships. England turned out to be a very encouraging place for me.

Zhang Xin

#35. The genius of happiness is not an innate genius but a product of deliberate cultivation.

Mu Xin

#36. Many years ago, we were only able to build boxes. Today, architects from all over the world are working with us - Zaha Hadid from London, Gerkan, Marg and Partner from Hamburg, Kengo Kuma from Japan. We brought design and digitalization from abroad to China.

Zhang Xin

#37. Growth will be slower, no one denies that. But the question is: Where are the chances and opportunities now? I see some positive and some negative trends.

Zhang Xin

#38. Because people along the route had realized that there was demand and quickly organized supply. That's so Chinese. In a well-organized country like Germany, such a problem may not have arisen in the first place, but in China people immediately recognized an opportunity.

Zhang Xin

#39. What is art in the final analysis? Art is the shining forth of one's interiority

Mu Xin