Masayoshi Son Quotes

The companies that survive longest are the one's that work out what they uniquely can give to the world not just growth or money but their excellence, their respect for others, or their ability to make people happy. Some call those things a soul.

When I die there is nobody to take my place.

This will last, Mr. President, as long as you are President and beyond.

Our culture is the foundation for our company.

Just as two people can have similar personalities, two companies can have a remarkably similar approach to business.

The love of posterity is the consequence of the necessity of death. If a man were sure of living forever here, he would not care about his offspring.

By the age of 50, I would like to know that I'm not dead - that there's some continuity to my life.

I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on.

Man has always needed to believe in some form of a continuity of achievement.

The exact time of death, I think, is not something that matters so much at this moment for we will be reliving John Paul's life for many days and weeks and even years and decades and centuries to come.

You can't live if you don't eat, but you don't live to eat. And neither does business exist primarily to make a profit. It exists to fulfill its purpose, whatever that might be.

Even if I don't finish, we need others to continue. It's got to keep going without me.

The game was here long before I was, and will be here long after I'm gone.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him.

When the creator of the show is gone, the actors end up being the people who have been there the longest.

From the beginning... I wanted to build a company that could sustain not for two years or four years or even ten years but be something that really matters over time the way Amazon and Google and others have.

Having a child is sowing the seeds of your own obsolescence: birth is the fuse that leads to that other thing. You appear, you replace yourself, you die.

One test of leaders is how they make sure that their ideas and programs will live on after they’re gone.

I don't know if a company can have a soul, but I like to think it can.

A new 'look' for any organization cannot be a papier-mache cover, tacked on with Scotch tape under the heading of 'beautification.' It has to be based on a probing examination of the company and the people who work for it. As a result, the eventual external visual design becomes the graphic extension of the internal realities of a company.

I think culture is a big word for corporate character.

Unilever has been around for 100-plus years. We want to be around for several hundred more years.

Eventually, there will come a day where I'm not making games at Bethesda. Hopefully that's a long time away. But I want to make sure that who we are, what the worlds are, what the company is, that's sustainable far beyond me.

The people inside the company are the people who define GE, not the people outside the company.