Masayoshi Son Quotes

I am actually better at predicting or talking about 30 years later than three years.

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• I don't like comedians who don't have conviction, and with stand-up, it is always best to have an angle.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Up
  • Best
  • Always

• We have to be aware that fossil fuel energy sources have an expiry date. A timeframe of 30, 40 or 50 years can seem a long time to get rewards for economic policy, but it's only a short time for implementing a new energy policy.

  

  Carlo Rubbia
  • Time
  • Long
  • Energy

• I've been making a diary of the daft things people have said during London Fashion Week, and it does wear a little bit thin, everyone comparing my name to Edie Sedgwick.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • People
  • Fashion
  • Week

• It was hard to write or compose... we just had to go back and finish making songs. If we make 20 songs, we'll throw away 10.

  

  Yolandi Visser
  • Back
  • Finish
  • Throw

• I've learned that universal acceptance and appreciation is just an unrealistic goal.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Goal
  • Appreciation
  • Acceptance

• You can't do anything to a film post its release. I concentrate on working hard, giving the required inputs for the roles, having discussions with my directors and co-stars. It isn't possible to predict the fate of any film. I don't take failures to heart and successes to my head. These are part and parcel of this career.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • Heart
  • Career
  • Giving

• Most of my songs are about insensitivity of some kind.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Kind
  • Songs
  • Most

• Israel is slightly smaller than New Jersey. Moses in effect led the tribes of Israel out of the District of Columbia, parted Chesapeake Bay near Annapolis, and wandered for forty years in Delaware.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Years
  • New
  • Israel

• Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • God
  • Always
  • Greatest

• It felt when I was growing up that sport was, like, the only thing you should do... if you do music, you're really different and a bit weird.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Up
  • Music
  • Different

• Everyone has Good and Bad Times. Find your creative/thinking time. Defend it ruthlessly, spend it alone, maybe at home. Find your dead time. Schedule meetings, phone calls, and mundane stuff during it.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Time
  • Good
  • Thinking

• Twenty years ago no one could have imagined the effects the Internet would have: entire relationships flourish, friendships prosper…there’s a vast new intimacy and accidental poetry, not to mention the weirdest porn. The entire human experience seems to unveil itself like the surface of a new planet.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Experience
  • Poetry
  • Intimacy

• A job is something you do for money. Your life's work is done for a bigger purpose... And when you manage to find that work - that's when it starts feeling like play.

  

  Chip Gaines
  • Life
  • Work
  • Money

• I just think the best way for me to be greedy is long-term greedy.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • Long

• It's good to be slightly ambitious, but I believe one shouldn't be too calculative. It's good to be on the edge, but I have never followed my mind. I have always followed my heart. And it has yielded the right results.

  

  Deepika Padukone
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Mind

• Encryption threatens to lead all of us to a very dark place.

  

  James Comey
  • Dark

• The only way to be true to our American tradition is to maintain absolute governmental neutrality regarding religious beliefs and practices.

  

  Bill Bradley
  • American
  • True
  • Religious

• I think I understand why baseball players today are a little standoffish, because the world has changed. You don't know who's trying to take advantage of you, what people really want.

  

  Billy Williams
  • People
  • World
  • Trying

• Let's get glam. It's all in the way you move. Let's get glam. Don't let the clothes wear you. Let's get glam. It's all an attitude.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Way
  • Moving
  • Attitude

• One cannot, without reflection, make some into bearers of goodness and others into miscreants, judging them by relative positive or negative criteria. These, like everything else, change according to historical circumstances, the character of a society, the time and subjective points of view.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Time
  • Character
  • Society

• An actress plays all types of roles. When I play Bernadette I will become Bernadette, but when I am off the screen I am Jennifer Jones. No girl could, however, fail to want her life to be exemplary so that she is worthy of playing Bernadette.

  

  Jennifer Jones
  • Roles
  • Actress
  • Screen

• In the early days you have a tendency to intellectualize, but you're really just trying to sound smart and score with the chicks.

  

  Tom Hanks
  • Tendency
  • Intellectualize

• When I studied graphic design, I learned a valuable lesson: There's no perfect answer to the puzzle, and creativity is a renewable resource.

  Biz Stone
  • Perfect
  • Design
  • Creativity

• I am actually better at predicting or talking about 30 years later than three years.

  

  Masayoshi Son