Background
Son Masayoshi has expressed this philosophy repeatedly in interviews and public speeches. Cited in Son Masayoshi Meigoroku (SB Creative) and multiple other publications. It reflects his own experience: leaving Japan alone at 16, building SoftBank from scratch in 1981, and finding the strength to overcome serious illness by holding onto the grand vision of making people happy through the information revolution.
Lesson for Today
Your dream is the blueprint of your life. Do not hesitate to dream—dream as big as you possibly can. The scale of your ambition determines the scale of your challenges, fuels your drive to act, and ultimately defines how far you will go.
Meaning
“Your life is proportional to the dreams you hold”—Son Masayoshi has returned to this belief throughout his public life, tracing it to his earliest years when he left Japan at 16 with little more than a fierce ambition.
When Son was bedridden with illness in his twenties, he wrestled with what his life was truly for. The answer—to make people happy through the information revolution—gave him a dream large enough to fuel an extraordinary journey. For Son, the size of your dream is not decoration; it determines the actual scale of your life.