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Masayoshi Son

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Total quotes: 2

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Masayoshi Son

Birthname

AKA: Masayoshi Sun

Birthday: August 11, 1957

Birthplace: Tosu, Saga, Japan

Nationality: Japan

Occupations: Entrepreneur, Businessperson

Total quotes: 2

“I came up with 40 new business ideas—everything from creating software to setting up hospital chains, since my wife’s father is a doctor and has a hospital. Then I had about 25 success measures that I used to decide which idea to pursue. One success measure was that I should fall in love with a particular business for the next 50 years at least. Very often, people get excited for the first few years, and then, after they see the reality, they get tired of the business. I wanted to choose one that I would feel more and more excited about as the years passed.”

— Masayoshi Son, Japanese-Style Entrepreneurship: An Interview with Softbank’S CEO, Masayoshi Son

Tagged: Entrepreneurship, 1992, Harvard Business Review, Softbank, Software Is Eating The World

“People usually compare the computer to the head of the human being. 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.

If you look at these carefully, you don’t think the skull has the most value. The brain is more valuable than the skull. But everybody has a brain. Inside the brain are wisdom and knowledge. Wisdom and knowledge are the most valuable things in the body.”

— Masayoshi Son, Japanese-Style Entrepreneurship: An Interview with Softbank’S CEO, Masayoshi Son

Tagged: Entrepreneurship, 1992, Harvard Business Review, Softbank, Software Is Eating The World

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