A Quote by Masayoshi Son

Softbank 2.0 means globalisation of Softbank.

Masayoshi Son

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Masayoshi Son
Japanese - Businessman
Born: August 11, 1957

To many of you, Sprint may seem like a burden for SoftBank. But in my view, Sprint is going to be one of SoftBank's primary cash cows.

Masayoshi Son

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

Masayoshi Son

The value that SoftBank saw in us was that we are a technology company in the mobile Internet space.

Bhavish Aggarwal

SoftBank has had a lot of businesses, but they've always ranked, say, third in Japan or fourth in the U.S.

Masayoshi Son

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.

Masayoshi Son

SoftBank's $100 million investment helped cement our reputation as a start-up with a promise.

Ritesh Agarwal

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

Masayoshi Son

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.

Masayoshi Son

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.

Masayoshi Son

It's a long journey. There will be good times, and there will be bad times, but SoftBank is always there.

Masayoshi Son

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.

Masayoshi Son

If SoftBank can complete the tender offer it contemplates to buy a large stake in Uber, the company's bizarre governance war will be over for the time being, putting Uber back on par with other normal companies whose boards of directors dont fight publicly with each other.

Adam Lashinsky

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.

Masayoshi Son

Globalisation means many things. At one level, it talks of trade, which since the 16th century has exchanged goods and now, increasingly, ideas and information across the globe. But globalisation is also a view of the world - it is an opinion about man and why men are on the world.

John Berger

The 'anti-globalisation movement' is the most significant proponent of globalisation - but in the interests of people, not concentrations of state-private power.