Masayoshi Son
Masayoshi Son
Masayoshi Sonis a Japanese businessman and the founder and current chief executive officer of SoftBank, the chief executive officer of SoftBank Mobile, and current chairman of Sprint Corporation. According to Forbes magazine, Son's estimated net worth is US $17 billion and he is the second-richest man in Japan, despite having the distinction of losing the most money in history. Forbes also describes him as a philanthropist...
NationalityJapanese
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth11 August 1957
CountryJapan
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.
Whatever the country, whatever the culture, whatever the time, when you become a big enough organization, you start to collapse and slow down.
I don't like accidental success. It's what Bill Gates calls 'random,' a term he uses with the opposite of respect.
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.
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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