Masayoshi Son Quotes
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It's actually sad to be rich.
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Think big; think disruptive. Execute with full passion.
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I am actually better at predicting or talking about 30 years later than three years.
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Some kind of correction will always happen. But it depends on the specific companies.
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The year 2000, I was the richest for three days. So I know up and down.
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I think Snapdeal could become the Alibaba of India.
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I use the iPhone and iPad every day, and I no longer touch PCs at all.
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We feel a brand should be free.
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Best thing for a government to do is to eliminate obstacles like filing registrations, getting licences, and so on... tedious steps slow everything down.
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To have real success and roots in a society, there has to be a local champion, and hence we believe in identifying a local entrepreneur.
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People usually compare the computer to the head of the human being. I would say that hardware is the bone of the head, the skull. The semiconductor is the brain within the head. The software is the wisdom. And data is the knowledge.
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A person's life is over in 50, 100 years. But a company lives on through the people it is composed of, and SoftBank group has to survive even after I'm gone.
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We believe the singularity is inevitable, and all businesses will be redefined as computers overtake humans in intelligence.
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I am the man who keeps his words.
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Just believe in the future and direction of the capability that ARM has. Go deep and build a better future, both for the company and for its contribution to the industry. That's what I want ARM to do: invest more the future.
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Yahoo was Jerry Yang's baby. He did a great job creating the baby. Unfortunately, some of the key executives after the foundation of the company couldn't keep up with the technology innovation of the industry. They thought that Yahoo should become a media company.
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Mankind had the agricultural revolution, the industrial revolution, and now this third one, the information revolution.
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Internet as a service is like culture that you have to understand, and each country has a local culture.
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Traditional companies have to start looking into themselves to offer more opportunities in their companies by starting new subsidiaries and joint ventures.
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I started Softbank in 1981, a year and a half after I came back from the United States, after graduating from Berkeley. I wanted to start my own company when I came back to Japan.
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I don't like accidental success. It's what Bill Gates calls 'random,' a term he uses with the opposite of respect.
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It's easy to look at where your pieces are now and place the next one nearby.
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In Internet in general, there are security, privacy, and many other issues.
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Those who rule chips will rule the entire world.