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.
When those super intelligence goes into robots, those robots with the super intelligence will change our lives.
The autonomous car is definitely coming, and when that stage comes, this ride-share business becomes even more important.
I don't like accidental success. It's what Bill Gates calls 'random,' a term he uses with the opposite of respect.
Of course Jack Ma was the guy who impressed me.
The best opportunity for return on investment is in the information revolution.
If you live in the States, you see the windmill signal on your smartphone all the time. It's like living in Beijing air. You have to remember the blue sky.
SoftBank has had a lot of businesses, but they've always ranked, say, third in Japan or fourth in the U.S.
In the early stages of Internet in Japan, many said that Japanese and Americans are different. There are 10 reasons why Japanese Internet is not taking off. I said none of them are right; it's just a time lag. And, of course, Japanese Internet took off.
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.
Traditional companies have to start looking into themselves to offer more opportunities in their companies by starting new subsidiaries and joint ventures.
Indian software engineers are the best in the world; even in Silicon Valley, the best software engineers are Indians.
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.
I am actually better at predicting or talking about 30 years later than three years.
When I was a kid, our family was not that rich.
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.
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.
I'm still committed to the success of the U.K. and the belief of the strong intelligence and passion and determination of the British people. I'm a strong believer of their long-term historical success.
Yahoo was Jerry Yang's baby. He did a great job creating the baby. Unfortunately, some of the key executives after the foundation of the company couldn't keep up with the technology innovation of the industry. They thought that Yahoo should become a media company.
If they had listened to me and had equal partnerships in China, the U.K., Germany and Brazil, maybe Yahoo in those countries could have become positioned like Yahoo Japan.
