Masayoshi Son Quotes

After 13 years, I couldn't accept to be number two.

I don't intend to stay around any longer than I feel I can be No. 1.

I always want to be first.

First we become the best, then we'll become first.

My entire purpose is trying to be the best in the game, and if that exudes beauty too, that's pretty powerful.

If ambition is the desire to be the best at what you do, then I'm guilty.

I have been ambitious to be a somebody from the time I was 5 years old.

I'm very competitive, and my ego couldn't handle that lack of success.

To build an empire - or win seven Tour de Frances in a row - you must have a Lone Star-size ego and a dash of megalomania.

My goal definitely isn't to be top five. It's to be the best in the league.

I want to be bigger than everybody.

It doesn't matter who you are in this league: You're always trying to have a bigger role. Anybody who said they weren't trying to do that would be lying.

I don't think you can be a director without a kind of sense of competitiveness.

I think there are certain people that you'll always want to impress no matter how much success you have.

Success is man's god.

in Los Angeles ... was the thinking-est crowd on earth: how to get ahead, how to mold a better body, how to have a better relationship, how to score, earn, fight, win, get published, be a star.

A lot of things drive me. What it comes down to is that I want to be the best.

We all have the drum major instinct. We all want to be important, to surpass others, to achieve distinction, to lead the parade.

Once you've been number one, you can never be satisfied with less.

Ambition! We must be careful what we mean by it. If it means the desire to get ahead of other people - which is what I think it does mean - then it is bad. If it means simply wanting to do a thing well, then it is good. It isn't wrong for an actor to want to act his part as well as it can possibly be acted, but the wish to have his name in bigger type than the other actors is a bad one.

I've got to be first. ALL the time.

You can never have enough trophies. If there were ten to be won a year I'd want to win them all! That's not being greedy, it's just a natural thing.

The only legacy I want is to be thought of as a winner.

I've never been driven to just be a celebrity or just get me on TV. Never ever. What's always driven me is being successful and being good at what I do.

What I want is to be number one.