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From this day forward, I will speak only in English.
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I remain fully committed to the process I've come to call Englishnization, making English the language in which we do business. I do this because I am convinced it is the best thing I can do both for Rakuten and for Japan.
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If you improve by just 0.1 percent per day, after a year you will be 44 percent better at what you do.
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Every time a company grows by a factor of three or ten, everything breaks.