“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.

All you need is the best product in the world, the most efficient production in the world and global marketing.

But make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.

Of course we have to make a profit, but we have to make a profit over the long haul, not just the short term, and that means we must keep investing in research and development.

More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.

When I get sick of what men do, I have only to walk a few steps in another direction to see what spiders do. Or what the weather does. This sustains me very well indeed.

I never think that there’s something I can’t do, whether it’s beating my opponent one on one or practicing another hour because something about my game is just not right.

It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing another copy of oneself. It is wrong also to seek immortality by spewing one’s germ into the future as though sperm contains your consciousness!

Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.

To find some lasting comfort in the arms of anothers fire…driven by a desperate hunger to the arms of a neon light, the heart is a lonely hunter when there’s no sign of love in sight!

To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.

People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.

I’ve been so lucky to work with such great people: people that are such hard workers and have such a respect and appreciation for one another.