Masayoshi Son Quotes

The ultimate competitive advantage is being cognitive.

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

I can't say enough about the guts and the talents of Amazon. They're so agile, they're so nimble; they picked us up two weeks after we premiered, and their whole attitude is, 'Go, go, go, go,' so I'm very, very impressed.

I'm very business-minded. I think that's something that sets me aside from other drag queens.

I'm no dummy. I have a good sense of the business end of this game.

Whenever I came up against presidents of other companies, I was always smarter, because I was from the streets.

Wal-Mart's success strategies and tactics are easy to understand yet hard to duplicate.

An entrepreneurial mind is always looking for new opportunities.

If you want to stay in the business then you've got to be a bit shrewd, haven't you?

If being the biggest company was a guarantee of success, we'd all be using IBM computers and driving GM cars.

The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.

The key is not to figure out what the best people are doing and try to emulate it - rather, figure out what causes people and companies to be successful.

Jews are known for many things, but strength, swiftness, and agility are not among them. There is one trait, as controversial as it is familiar, for which Jews are above all known, and that is shrewdness in business.

Almost no one wants to admit the genius of Jeff Bezos and Amazon. Apparently, many have failed to see that Amazon has become the world's biggest retail company.

A lot of people who own a business aren't entrepreneurial at all.

Ludacris is a very smart individual. He's about his business. Everything is business with him. So I learned a lot about making deals from him.

There's no reason why I can't be a mogul. When I step into a room and I'm there to have a conversation, if it pertains to business, I want to be respected as a guy who knows what he's talking about. And that, to me, holds more weight than anything else.

If you want to be promoted into the first league of carmakers, then you can't just follow suit.

If we can become the de facto standard for image capture of unique perspectives around the world, we have a lot of growth ahead of us.

Observe, orient, decide, act. It's fighter pilot terminology. If you have the faster OODA loop in a dogfight, you live. The other person dies. In Silicon Valley, the OODA loop of your decision-making is effectively what differentiates your ability to succeed.

I'm a competitive person. Business is a much more competitive sport than any real sport. It's 24x7x365. I'm a business adrenaline junky.

I have tremendous admiration for companies with the kind of pioneering spirit and innovation eBay has demonstrated from day one.

In the business world, if you're not looking ahead, you're missing something.

Let's all strive to be more entrepreneurial, and I think we'll all be in a better place.

The best in business have boundless curiosity and open minds.