Back Quote by Masayoshi Son

Remember, 2000 was the year of the dot-com bust. The telecom industry lost about $2 trillion in market capital at that time.

— Mo Ibrahim

There is no lack of profitability or investment among these telecommunications companies. There is nothing that an open-internet order did to them that diminished…

— Brian Schatz

Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.

— Xavier Niel

When there were not very many Internet companies, the supply of Internet companies to the market was small and the appetite for them was…

— Fred Wilson

The history of the Internet is, in part, a series of opportunities missed: the major record labels let Apple take over the digital-music business;…

— James Surowiecki

When the internet came up, scores of companies were created. But many of them collapsed during the dot.com bubble.

— Ashok Soota

During the desperate depression of the 1980s, there were no oil and gas companies without net operating losses.

— George Kaiser

The Internet is an élite organization; most of the population of the world has never even made a phone call.

— Noam Chomsky

The Internet, like most successful American innovations, have not thrived because of heavy-handed government regulation.

— Cindy Hyde-Smith

Amazon has reported a loss of nearly $900M in 1999... because, guess what, ecommerce is a business of scale. And, the Internet bubble had…

— Julie Wainwright

Well all the big companies are really panicked by the internet thing and all that, and sales went down, although sales have gone up…

— Jack Bruce

After all, the internet originated around 1960 and wasn't privatized until 1995. That's thirty five years in the public domain during the hard, creative development period.

— Noam Chomsky