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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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" India has the best opportunity ahead of us. "

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

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

" Best thing for a government to do is to eliminate obstacles like filing registrations, getting licences, and so on... tedious steps slow everything down. "

" Alibaba model is the model that I am supporting in China, in India, and even in Japan. "

" If you live in the States, you see the windmill signal on your smartphone all the time. It's like living in Beijing air. You have to remember the blue sky. "

" Alibaba is Alibaba. We are going to keep on, you know, having Alibaba as our core company in our family. "

" Uber is redefining the transportation industry now; Airbnb is doing it to the hotel industry. You can expect that to happen in every single industry. "

" I am going to support Ola. "

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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. "

" When Gates was active in business, he was the smartest - so focused that no company could surpass Microsoft. "

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" We are not experts on everything. We are not capable of doing everything by ourselves. There are a bunch of other smarter people around the world. "

" In tennis, you strike a ball just after the rebound for the fastest return. It's the same with investment. "

" Indian software engineers are the best in the world; even in Silicon Valley, the best software engineers are Indians. "

" It's a long journey. There will be good times, and there will be bad times, but SoftBank is always there. "

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

" I want to be number one. "

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" We have lots of ideas, lots of dreams. "

" The pension system ties you to companies much longer in Japan. "

" God is so kind, he has given so much sunshine to India. "

" When those super intelligence goes into robots, those robots with the super intelligence will change our lives. "

" It's actually sad to be rich. "

" The energy in Silicon Valley is because of the very talented engineers immigrating from around the world, especially Indians and Chinese. They are the best engineers, and Japan doesn't have enough of them. "

" Being educated in the United States gave me a good understanding of American culture. I think I got a lot of influence from the entrepreneurial mind in the United States. "

" I don't care whether the technology is invented by our employees. I want to bring everybody's innovations into our ecosystem together. "

" When you negotiate a deal, you clearly know a lot about the other person. "

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

" Wisdom and knowledge are the most valuable things in the body. "

" In the early stages of Internet in Japan, many said that Japanese and Americans are different. There are 10 reasons why Japanese Internet is not taking off. I said none of them are right; it's just a time lag. And, of course, Japanese Internet took off. "