Top 12 John Roos Quotes

#1. Diplomacy is fundamentally working with people, bringing people together to deal with difficult issues.

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#2. I'm inspired by the example of Prime Minister Abe, who overcame many challenges after his first term as prime minister to successfully return to the highest office in Japan six years later, and is now hopefully leading Japan in an extremely promising direction.

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#3. What people often ask me is, 'What are the ingredients of Silicon Valley?' While the answer to that is complex, some of the ingredients I talk about are celebrating entrepreneurship, accepting failure, and embracing a mobile and diverse workforce.

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#4. As the U.S. ambassador to Japan, I see this challenge of our younger generations not knowing each other as well as the prior generations.

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#5. A successful entrepreneur can't be afraid of failures or setbacks. An initial setback can be a great opportunity to take a new and more promising approach to any problem, to come back stronger than ever.

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#6. Direct flights facilitate business. They facilitate business-to-business collaborations. I think anything that makes it easier to bring two areas together is a significant benefit to deepening relations and connections.

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#7. In running Wilson Sonsini, it's all people-to-people skills. Those people-to-people skills translate into diplomatic skills.

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#8. Japan is a well-educated, technological society. It is a free society, protects intellectual property.

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#9. I'd not underestimate the competitive powers of the Japanese people.

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#10. For the sake of future generations, we must continue to work together to realise a world without nuclear weapons.

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#11. People talk about Japanese kids as being inward-looking. But my experience is that if you offer them an opportunity, they'll take it.

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#12. Growing up in California, I obviously knew about our deep connections with the Japanese.

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