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" Of course Jack Ma was the guy who impressed me. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I am the largest shareholder in SoftBank; I share the same interest as the other shareholders. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" When the founders retire, it's always difficult for the second generation and third generation. "

" I was richer than Bill Gates for 3 days. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I think in terms of 20-year horizons. "

" We feel a brand should be free. "

" I always have a big idea. It pops up every two to three years. "

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

" Those who rule chips will rule the entire world. "

" I am not trying to chase what other people are doing. "

" Those who rule data will rule the entire world. "

" Softbank 2.0 means globalisation of Softbank. "

" Japan had an energy crisis. I thought, instead of just worrying about it, I should take some kind of responsibility to provide the solutions. "

" In Internet in general, there are security, privacy, and many other issues. "

" 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. "

" Mankind had the agricultural revolution, the industrial revolution, and now this third one, the information revolution. "

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

" Renewables is part of social responsibility, but the information revolution is the only main thing I am interested in. "