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SoftBank is not a specialist on any instrument. We did not invent any instrument. Not the best player. But we would like to be a conductor of this information revolution.
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When the founders retire, it's always difficult for the second generation and third generation.
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We are not experts on everything. We are not capable of doing everything by ourselves. There are a bunch of other smarter people around the world.
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When Gates was active in business, he was the smartest - so focused that no company could surpass Microsoft.
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Most of the time, when I make a big move, people say I am out of my mind. But I don't think about how I can add to what I have today.
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Back in the year 2000, most of the Internet companies were not making any money.
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Alibaba is Alibaba. We are going to keep on, you know, having Alibaba as our core company in our family.
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Money is available from investors as long as you have a great business model and a talented leader.
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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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Renewables is part of social responsibility, but the information revolution is the only main thing I am interested in.
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Some kind of correction will always happen. But it depends on the specific companies.
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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 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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We believe the singularity is inevitable, and all businesses will be redefined as computers overtake humans in intelligence.
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I don't care whether the technology is invented by our employees. I want to bring everybody's innovations into our ecosystem together.
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Alibaba model is the model that I am supporting in China, in India, and even in Japan.
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In Internet in general, there are security, privacy, and many other issues.
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Japan had an energy crisis. I thought, instead of just worrying about it, I should take some kind of responsibility to provide the solutions.
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To have real success and roots in a society, there has to be a local champion, and hence we believe in identifying a local entrepreneur.
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I see a lot of opportunity in Internet-related start-ups, and second is the solar business.
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We saw a big bang in PCs; we saw a big bang in the Internet. I believe the next big bang is going to be even bigger. To be ready for that, we need to set the foundation, and that foundation is SoftBank Vision Fund.
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It's easy to look at where your pieces are now and place the next one nearby.
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Softbank has always been a service firm, and with the Internet, services became the center of the technology industry.
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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.
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If Japanese cannot have new babies quick enough, then the government should start importing workers faster.
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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.
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As a student, I had a hobby of inventing new ideas for products. For me, thinking of new businesses is like inventing new products.
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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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