“Once you have a staff of prepared, intelligent, and energetic people, the next step is to motivate them to be creative.”

Carefully watch how people live, get an intuitive sense as to what they might want and then go with it.

Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period.

We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart’s desire their technological capacity.

Never break another man’s rice bowl.

The most important mission for a Japanese manager is to develop a healthy relationship with his employees.

If you go through life convinced that your way is always best, all the new ideas in the world will pass you by.

If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell it.

The public does not know what is possible. We do.

The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.

Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.

From a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people’s inborn creativity.

Every action analysed and every responsibility assigned by an organisation chart.

People need money, but they also want to be happy in their work and proud of it.

To gain profit is important, but you must invest to build up assets that you can cash in in the future.

I believe one of the reasons we went through such a remarkable growth period was that we had this atmosphere of free discussion.

An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.

So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.

Sometimes the only thing we do to avoid success is refuse to be energetic on our own behalf

With a firm and steadfast mind one should hold under all conditions, that everywhere the earth is below and the sky above and to the energetic man, every region is his fatherland.

Maybe. But the reality is that our early interests are fragile, vaguely defined, and in need of energetic, years-long cultivation and refinement.

Fluid and energetic and wild very, very smart and very, very funny.