Masayoshi Son Quotes

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Masayoshi Son

Profession : Businessman

Birth : August 11, 1957

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

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

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The autonomous car is definitely coming, and when that stage comes, this ride-share business becomes even more important.

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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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India has the best opportunity ahead of us.

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I was richer than Bill Gates for 3 days.

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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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My passion never fades out.

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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.

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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.

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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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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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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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Some kind of correction will always happen. But it depends on the specific companies.

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

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

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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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Softbank 2.0 means globalisation of Softbank.

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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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