Masayoshi Quotes

#1. The unwelcome November rain had perversely stolen the day's last hour and pawned it with that ancient fence, the night.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#2. In tennis, you strike a ball just after the rebound for the fastest return. It's the same with investment.

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#3. 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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#4. 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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#5. Be present, be concentrated, and be strong.

Laurence Boldt

#6. 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.

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#7. Mr. Lincoln's maxim and philosophy were: 'What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.' He never joined any Church. He was a religious man always, I think, but was not a technical Christian.

Mary Todd Lincoln

#8. You're either sexy or you're not. I'm very self-conscious about my physiognomy.

Bobby Darin

#9. Whatever the country, whatever the culture, whatever the time, when you become a big enough organization, you start to collapse and slow down.

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#10. I use the iPhone and iPad every day, and I no longer touch PCs at all.

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#11. When you are challenging the young, they can come back at you with language of tremendous power and they are no respecters of sacred cows, you know, the young. There's nothing politically correct about the average young Australian when it comes to use of language.

Tony Abbott

#12. I don't like accidental success. It's what Bill Gates calls 'random,' a term he uses with the opposite of respect.

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#13. I'm a man, and I think every man wants to be No. 1.

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#14. 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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