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" I think I became an entrepreneur because I have my way of doing business... to do that, you have to have your own company. But if you have your own company, you're an outsider in the Japanese business world. It's difficult. But that's life. "

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Better

Deep

" Back in the year 2000, most of the Internet companies were not making any money. "

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" We only live once, so I want to think big. "

" Internet as a service is like culture that you have to understand, and each country has a local culture. "

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Burden

View

" If they had listened to me and had equal partnerships in China, the U.K., Germany and Brazil, maybe Yahoo in those countries could have become positioned like Yahoo Japan. "

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Partnerships

Become

" As a student, I had a hobby of inventing new ideas for products. For me, thinking of new businesses is like inventing new products. "

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New

Student

" India has the best opportunity ahead of us. "

" When I was a kid, our family was not that rich. "

" 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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Opposite

Random

" It's actually sad to be rich. "

" Uber has to design for the global platform. "

" 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. "

" There will come a time when the human race and super intelligence will coexist to create a richer and happier life. "

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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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Easy

Look

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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. "

" Softbank has always been a service firm, and with the Internet, services became the center of the technology industry. "

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Globalisation

Means