Quotes by John Roos - Page 1

I'd not underestimate the competitive powers of the Japanese people.
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Underestimate
Competitive
Japanese
Japanese People
Powers
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Growing up in California, I obviously knew about our deep connections with the Japanese.
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California
Connections
Japanese
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Japan is a well-educated, technological society. It is a free society, protects intellectual property.
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Free Society
Intellectual Property
Japan
Well Educated
Protects
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Diplomacy is fundamentally working with people, bringing people together to deal with difficult issues.
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Difficult
Issues
Together
Bringing
Deal
Working
Fundamentally
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For the sake of future generations, we must continue to work together to realise a world without nuclear weapons.
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Generations
Nuclear
Nuclear Weapons
Sake
Weapons
Future Generations
Work Future Together
Realise
Work Together
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In running Wilson Sonsini, it's all people-to-people skills. Those people-to-people skills translate into diplomatic skills.
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Skills
Wilson
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People talk about Japanese kids as being inward-looking. But my experience is that if you offer them an opportunity, they'll take it.
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Japanese
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As the U.S. ambassador to Japan, I see this challenge of our younger generations not knowing each other as well as the prior generations.
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Generations
Japan
Not Knowing
Ambassador
Prior
Younger Generations
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A successful entrepreneur can't be afraid of failures or setbacks. An initial setback can be a great opportunity to take a new and more promising approach to any problem, to come back stronger than ever.
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Approach
Entrepreneur
Great Opportunity
Setback
Stronger
Great Opportunity New
Afraid
Initial
Promising
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Direct flights facilitate business. They facilitate business-to-business collaborations. I think anything that makes it easier to bring two areas together is a significant benefit to deepening relations and connections.
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Connections
Direct
Facilitate
Significant
Benefit
Collaborations
Deepening
Flights
Relations
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What people often ask me is, 'What are the ingredients of Silicon Valley?' While the answer to that is complex, some of the ingredients I talk about are celebrating entrepreneurship, accepting failure, and embracing a mobile and diverse workforce.
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Failure
Diverse
Entrepreneurship
Ingredients
Mobile
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Workforce
Ask
Me People Talk
Talk
Celebrating
Complex
Often
Embracing
Valley
While
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I'm inspired by the example of Prime Minister Abe, who overcame many challenges after his first term as prime minister to successfully return to the highest office in Japan six years later, and is now hopefully leading Japan in an extremely promising direction.
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Abe
Hopefully
Inspired
Japan
Prime
Prime Minister
Return
Term
Direction
First Term
Leading
Minister
Overcame
Promising
Successfully
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My career was always about working with people, and understanding issues and problems and helping them to solve those issues and problems. How you deal with people - that's what diplomacy is all about. So while I'm not a career diplomat, many of the skills I had seemed to directly translate into the diplomatic arena.
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Arena
Diplomacy
Diplomatic
Helping
Issues
Skills
Solve
Translate
Understanding
Career
Deal
Directly
Working
Problems
Seemed
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As an American, you appreciate the importance of our security alliance, the importance of the economic ties between our two countries, and while I knew of the two bonds between our two people, until I came here, I didn't really appreciate how deep the people-to-people connections are between the American people and the Japanese people.
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Appreciate
Connections
Importance
Ties
Alliance
People Security American
American People
Bonds
Japanese
Japanese People
Two People
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