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" My belief is that we should never become overconfident. "
Masayoshi Son
Become
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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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" When Gates was active in business, he was the smartest - so focused that no company could surpass Microsoft. "
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" Some kind of correction will always happen. But it depends on the specific companies. "
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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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" Alibaba is Alibaba. We are going to keep on, you know, having Alibaba as our core company in our family. "
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" My style is to have a big vision, a big commitment. "
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" I try to look in the future and think backwards. That is when I am at my most comfortable. Because then I am just like the movie, 'Back to the Future.' "
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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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" Whenever there is a big difficulty, I don't make excuses. Instead, I say I will solve it even if everybody leaves. "
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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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" I said from the very beginning, 'Yahoo should position itself as a technology innovation company, not as a media company.' "
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" We only live once, so I want to think big. "
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" When those super intelligence goes into robots, those robots with the super intelligence will change our lives. "
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" InMobi is not just an India-focused company, but it is a global player. "
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Global
" Internet as a service is like culture that you have to understand, and each country has a local culture. "
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" I am the largest shareholder in SoftBank; I share the same interest as the other shareholders. "
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" I am the man who keeps his words. "
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