I am going to support Ola.

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.

It's easy to look at where your pieces are now and place the next one nearby.

Softbank has always been a service firm, and with the Internet, services became the center of the technology industry.

I want to be number one.

The pension system ties you to companies much longer in Japan.

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.

If Japanese cannot have new babies quick enough, then the government should start importing workers faster.

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.

As a student, I had a hobby of inventing new ideas for products. For me, thinking of new businesses is like inventing new products.

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.

Of course Jack Ma was the guy who impressed me.

I started Softbank in 1981, a year and a half after I came back from the United States, after graduating from Berkeley. I wanted to start my own company when I came back to Japan.

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.

When those super intelligence goes into robots, those robots with the super intelligence will change our lives.

I know I should not be a hindrance to SoftBank's future growth and that I need to pass on the baton to the younger generation.

There will come a time when the human race and super intelligence will coexist to create a richer and happier life.

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

Just like I gave Jack Ma and Alibaba the luxury of staying private for longer, I am now giving Arm the gift of being private. My only message to them now is take my investment and let's go, go, go.

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

Difficulty comes not only because of your mistakes, but once you try to make an excuse or accuse someone else, your mind stops thinking.

I am the largest shareholder in SoftBank; I share the same interest as the other shareholders.

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

I think I became an entrepreneur because I have my way of doing business... to do that, you have to have your own company. But if you have your own company, you're an outsider in the Japanese business world. It's difficult. But that's life.