Takafumi Horie quotes
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“Money is human kind's greatest invention. Money doesn't discriminate. Money doesn't care whether a person is poor, whether a person comes from a good family, or what his skin color is. Anybody can make money.”
-- Takafumi HorieSource : "Talk Asia" with Lorraine Hahn, www.cnn.com. November 23, 2005.
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“I just know that there are a lot of people out there who are younger than I am, and I wish to be a role model for them. If they have a dream, I want to help them keep that motivation high, so that they can realize their dream. I want to show people that they CAN have fun in life.”
-- Takafumi HorieSource : "Talk Asia" with Lorraine Hahn, www.cnn.com. November 23, 2005.
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“It's not that I'm not interested in politics, but rather, I think that the people who become politicians in Japan are not very dynamic. Honestly, I find business much more interesting than politics.”
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“Elections are a kind of business. I have to present myself: 'I can do this and that for this area so please give me your vote'. People vote for the politicians who can best understand and contribute to their region or country. In a business you can choose your clients, and the message is targeted to them only. But politics is universal; no matter what age the audience, you have to send the same message to everyone.”
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“The reason I entered the election race was to promote reforms. For us who engage in business, we will be severely affected if financial and structural reforms don't proceed.”
-- Takafumi HorieSource : "Talk Asia" with Lorraine Hahn, www.cnn.com. November 23, 2005.
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“Well I DO want to go up into space, but more than that, I'm dissatisfied with the fact that humans have only gone to the moon. I want to go to Mars! I want to eventually go beyond the solar system!”
-- Takafumi HorieSource : "Takafumi Horie Talkasia Transcript". "Talk Asia" With Lorraine Hahn, www.cnn.com. November 23, 200.
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“It's not that I'm deliberately trying to shock people all the time. I'm just doing things that are obvious to me. It's because the public doesn't understand my way of thinking that they get surprised.”
-- Takafumi HorieSource : "Talk Asia" with Lorraine Hahn, www.cnn.com. November 23, 2005.
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“Because I'm thinking in a broader way, I feel like I am able to make better decisions.”
-- Takafumi HorieSource : "Talk Asia" with Lorraine Hahn, www.cnn.com. November 23, 2005.
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“I haven't changed. If it seems I'm becoming more mainstream, doesn't that mean instead that Japan is aligning itself with me? I haven't changed one bit.”
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“I always had faith in the internet. I believed in it and thought it was obviously going to change the way the world worked. I really did not understand why others were selling their stock. As stock prices plunged, I just bought them, one after another, since I had the money. I guess I was rather lucky.”
-- Takafumi HorieSource : "Talk Asia" with Lorraine Hahn, www.cnn.com. November 23, 2005.
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