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" In Internet in general, there are security, privacy, and many other issues. "
Masayoshi Son
Privacy
Security
Internet
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" Difficulty comes not only because of your mistakes, but once you try to make an excuse or accuse someone else, your mind stops thinking. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" Softbank 2.0 means globalisation of Softbank. "
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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. "
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" Mankind had the agricultural revolution, the industrial revolution, and now this third one, the information revolution. "
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" Those who rule chips will rule the entire world. "
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" I think in terms of 20-year horizons. "
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" 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. "
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" It's actually sad to be rich. "
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" I have no intention of making small bets. "
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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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" When I was a kid, our family was not that rich. "
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" I'm still committed to the success of the U.K. and the belief of the strong intelligence and passion and determination of the British people. I'm a strong believer of their long-term historical success. "
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" I am the man who keeps his words. "
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" I use the iPhone and iPad every day, and I no longer touch PCs at all. "
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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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" The pension system ties you to companies much longer in Japan. "
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" I am actually better at predicting or talking about 30 years later than three years. "
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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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" When Gates was active in business, he was the smartest - so focused that no company could surpass Microsoft. "
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" Of course Jack Ma was the guy who impressed me. "
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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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