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" If I go to the department store, I get no excitement: I can buy the entire department store instead of one bag. So I lost excitement of shopping. "
Masayoshi Son
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Shopping
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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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" If Japanese cannot have new babies quick enough, then the government should start importing workers faster. "
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" My original intent for investing into Sprint - the main strategy was to buy Sprint and T-Mobile at the same time, so we'd have a critical mass to fight against AT&T and Verizon. The U.S. government didn't accept that. They rejected it. So my fundamental strategy was broken. "
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" Indian software engineers are the best in the world; even in Silicon Valley, the best software engineers are Indians. "
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" We saw a big bang in PCs; we saw a big bang in the Internet. I believe the next big bang is going to be even bigger. To be ready for that, we need to set the foundation, and that foundation is SoftBank Vision Fund. "
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" The best opportunity for return on investment is in the information revolution. "
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" God is so kind, he has given so much sunshine to India. "
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" Our aim is to develop affectionate robots that can make people smile. "
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" All human beings are the same. In the United States, people come from all over the world, all races, all backgrounds. And they're all doing what they want, many scoring huge successes. When I saw that, I became more open. It freed my soul. "
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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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" Japan had an energy crisis. I thought, instead of just worrying about it, I should take some kind of responsibility to provide the solutions. "
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" Think big; think disruptive. Execute with full passion. "
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" My belief is that we should never become overconfident. "
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" 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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Me
" Money is available from investors as long as you have a great business model and a talented leader. "
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" Wisdom and knowledge are the most valuable things in the body. "
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" I was richer than Bill Gates for 3 days. "
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" I am going to support Ola. "
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" To many of you, Sprint may seem like a burden for SoftBank. But in my view, Sprint is going to be one of SoftBank's primary cash cows. "
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" My philosophy is that the digital revolution will make mankind happier and more productive, and that won't change over the next 300 years. If you don't stick to that original philosophy, even perfect control of a bunch of companies isn't going to do you any good. "
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" I see a lot of opportunity in Internet-related start-ups, and second is the solar business. "
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" It's actually sad to be rich. "
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Actually
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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 don't care whether the technology is invented by our employees. I want to bring everybody's innovations into our ecosystem together. "
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" Mankind had the agricultural revolution, the industrial revolution, and now this third one, the information revolution. "
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" Of course Jack Ma was the guy who impressed me. "
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" I have no intention of making small bets. "
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" Every street light will be interconnected to the Internet because we can save when car is not passing. Automobile will all be connected, so driverless car much safer. "
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" SoftBank has had a lot of businesses, but they've always ranked, say, third in Japan or fourth in the U.S. "
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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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