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

My concept is that anybody has creative ability, but very few people know how to use it.

Management of an industrial company must be giving targets to the engineers constantly; that may be the most important job management has in dealing with its engineers.

But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.

And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.

Don’t do market research.

I believe people work for satisfaction.

Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.

The important thing in my view is not to pin the blame for a mistake on somebody, but rather to find out what caused the mistake.

The company must not throw money away on huge bonuses for executives or other frivolities but must share its fate with the workers.

When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,

In the long run, no matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty.

I have always made it a point to know our employees, to visit every facility of our company, and to try to meet and know every single employee.

We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business.

The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.

If you trust your colleague today, he may be your competitor tomorrow, because people frequently move from one company to another.

To create a familylike feeling within the corporation, a feeling that employees and managers share the same fate.

To the best of my knowledge, no war was ever started by women. But it is women and children who have always suffered most in situations of conflict.

I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.

Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man

It was a weird mix of emotions. One day, your best friend could be killed. The day before, you could be celebrating him getting a brand-new bike.

The smell of a freshly printed book is the best smell in the world.

Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.

I love what I do, and when you love what you do, you want to be the best at it.

Poetry: the best words in the best order.