Masayoshi Son Quotes

Just do the math. In the next 50 to 75 years, people will be living to be 130 and 140. They'll be working until they're 100. It's incredible.

What would it be like to live 500 years? Healthy years, of course; no one wants to live 500 years in a coma on a respirator. But reasonably healthy all that time? That would be awesome!

I really want to live longer. It's a goal of mine.

With decrepitude, longevity has overshot the mark.

I don't walk off and come back for encores. I figure I can add four weeks to my life that way.

Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.

I have programmed myself to be at least 105 years old.

I think anyone who wants to live past 100 can do it.

I really think people should live to be 100 years old pretty much disease-free. I think that's our genetic potential.

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

Even if we die at 100, we're still dying young. I want at least 700 years. There's a lot of travelling and books to read and movies to see. I'm not going to squeeze it all in in 85 years.

My father lived to be 97 and played bridge every day up to the end, so I've got a 50 percent chance of living a long life like him.

Children born today have a fifty-fifty chance of living to 100.

Human lifespan used to be 30 years, 25 years. But there's no basic, fundamental reason why it has to be short.

I tell my kids they are going to live to over 100.

I never expected to live this long.

If we all knew we were going to live to be 150 years old, we'd all approach our lives very differently.

I don't see any absolute biological limit on human age.

The key to the future in an aging society is not found in increasing just our life span; we need to increase our health span at the same time.

I wanna live long. As long as I can.

I understand that I'm not 20 anymore, but I feel great, like in my 20s. I don't know what it is, but in our generation, people last longer.

One of the things that got me on this topic for this book was that when I was researching the column I wrote in 2009 saying that I was stepping down from my column at "Newsweek" because I wanted to make room for newer, fresh voices out there, I discovered that in the year I was born, 1952, the average life expectancy of an American was 68. I was shocked by that figure and every time I mention it I hear a gasp from somebody in the crowd. Now, of course, we're more or less at 80, so that means that we've gotten 12 additional years.

I think living to be one hundred would be great, but living to fifty twice would be so much better.

We retire too early and we die too young, our prime of life should be in the 70's and old age should not come until we are almost 100.

I am confident that when I get really old, the human lifespan will be extended.