Masayoshi Son Quotes

#1. 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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#2. 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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#3. I'm a man, and I think every man wants to be No. 1.

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#4. 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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#5. Her descriptions will be incandescent, perfect little nuggets of phraseology, and there will probably be lots of sex in her writing - the clinical type of sex with labias and clitorises and tongues going everywhere.

Susan Breen

#6. One of the great ironies of my career is that people imagine me as some sort of hardcore metal guy because of the Metallica film.

Joe Berlinger

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

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#8. 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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#9. I don't necessarily want kids. A lot of our friends are having children and I don't know if it's for me. I haven't come down hardcore on either side of the argument. I think when people come from a stable family having children becomes a celebration and I'm not sure it would be that way for me.

Jon Hamm

#10. Piety is the only proper and adequate relief of decaying man. He that grows old without religions hopes, as he declines into imbecility, and feels pains and sorrows incessantly crowding upon him, falls into a gulf of bottomless misery, in which every reflection must plunge him deeper and deeper.

Samuel Johnson

#11. I had the idea that I should beat up every player I tangled with and nothing ever convinced me it wasn't a good idea.

Ted Lindsay

#12. Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.

Larry Wall

#13. Before the man could answer V cursed "If I have to hear all that Keanu Reeves, Matrix, I am Neo' kind of shit my head's going to explode."
"Don't you mean Neon?" Butch shot back "Cause he reminds me of the Citgo sign."
Wraths head turned "Shut the fuck up. All of you.

J.R. Ward

#14. The mode of consciousness of nonhuman species is quite different from human consciousness.

J.M. Coetzee

#15. 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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#16. Stockbrokers, secretaries, government functionaries - everybody back then was expected to have some kind of inner life.

Gary Shteyngart

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

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