Masayoshi Son Quotes

I said from the very beginning, 'Yahoo should position itself as a technology innovation company, not as a media company.'

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• The Romantics were whipping boys of the New Criticism, but they appealed to me anyway. I was recalcitrant. It was clear to me that they had thought innovatively.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • Thought
  • Criticism
  • Romantics

• How lucky are we to have Naomi Watts and Sean Penn playing us? We've seen the final cut now a couple times, and the scenes with the marriage fraying at the edges are still very difficult to watch. However, our hope was that no matter your political persuasion, you're taken with the idea that it's important to hold power in check.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Important
  • Power
  • Hope

• I believe in peace. I believe in mercy.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Believe
  • Peace
  • Mercy

• There is nothing in my work that can be taken as blasphemy.

  

  Oleg Kulik
  • Work
  • Taken
  • Nothing

• I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • People
  • Moral
  • Courage

• I have no privacy anymore.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Privacy
  • Anymore

• I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Know
  • Price
  • Late

• To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Me
  • Easy
  • Cat

• I just love scary movies. I love the thrill.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Movies
  • Scary
  • Thrill

• When I started as a child actor, my father didn't tell me anything.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Father
  • Me
  • Child

• After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world, - a world which yields him no self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • World
  • American
  • Son

• Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Up
  • Want
  • Powerful

• I don't expect anybody to know who I am.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Know
  • Expect

• The characteristics of an authentically empowered personality are humbleness, clarity, forgiveness and love.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Personality
  • Forgiveness
  • Clarity

• Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Society
  • You
  • Know

• You can get beat any day.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • You
  • Day
  • Beat

• My parents wanted to light my artistic candle. But over time, the definition of 'the arts' began to stretch. And as I got older, they suddenly realized, Oh, my God, we're the parents of Iggy Pop.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Time
  • God
  • Parents

• Although some people think I am a romantic novelist I have always thought of myself as a rather gritty radical historian.

  

  Philippa Gregory
  • People
  • Romantic

• My first introduction to television, and really just the business in general, was working with David Lynch, with his incredibly open, creative mind that was not following any rules. I didn't know it, because I hadn't been in the business.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Mind
  • Business
  • Creative

• I've been screwed by as many women as I have by men, in terms of lawyers. But lawyers don't count. If you take lawyers out of the equation, you have a more fair playing field. There is a sisterhood.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Men
  • Women
  • Sisterhood

• My hope is that we revive 'monopoly' as a core piece of political rhetoric that broadly denotes dominant firms with pernicious powers.

  

  Franklin Foer
  • Hope
  • Political

• The only thing that bothers me is that the girls come up to me and say, "I'm dating your ex-husband." I'm happy that he's dating girls and getting out.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Girl

• I said from the very beginning, 'Yahoo should position itself as a technology innovation company, not as a media company.'

  

  Masayoshi Son
  • Technology
  • Beginning
  • Innovation