“Americans make money by playing `money games,’ namely mergers, acquisitions, by simply moving money back and forth … instead of creating and producing goods with some actual value.”

I often say to my assistants, “Never trust anybody,” but what I mean is that you should never trust someone else to do a job exactly the way you would want it done.

There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.

We want everybody to have the best facilities in which to work, but we do not believe in posh and impressive private offices.

If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.

The “patron saint” of Japanese quality control, ironically, is an American named W. Edwards Deming, who was virtually unknown in his own country until his ideas of quality control began to make such a big impact on Japanese companies.

We don’t believe in market research for a new product unknown to the public. So we never do any.

My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.

If we do our best and make efforts, a peaceful and great future will become ours without fail.

I believe it is a big mistake to think that money is the only way to compensate a person for his work.

A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.

We want to keep the company healthy and its employees happy, and we want to keep them on the job and productive.

To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.

Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.

I knew we needed a weapon to break through to the US market, and it had to be something different, something that nobody else was making.

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

I established the rule that once we hire an employee, his school records are a matter of the past and are no longer used to evaluate his work or decide on his promotion.

And all writing is creating or spinning dreams for other people so they won’t have to bother doing it themselves.

Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.

The same technologies enabling us to work together at a distance are creating the expectation to do better at governing ourselves.

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I’m not from a particularly sci-fi background. I’m not anti sci-fi at all, but I’ve never been known as a sci-fi writer and, suddenly, I was creating a flagship BBC sci-fi show, which is terrifying sometimes.

We’re creating a little niche for ourselves instead of working the whole canvas.

When you’re creating new roles out of scratch in my opinion working with the actors is a great asset. You can learn a lot from that.

I enjoyed singing, I loved song writing, I loved recording. All those things that involves with creating music was great.