Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.

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

You can be totally rational with a machine. But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.

Curiosity is the key to creativity.

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

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

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

In the long run, no matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty, your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.

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

Carefully watch how people live, get an intuitive sense as to what they might want and then go with it. Don’t do market research.

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.

To have a solid foundation of skepticism, -that is to say, the faculty of changing at any moment, of turning back, of facing successively the metamorphoses of life.

Life without flying unconditionally, life with hindered and heartless ending.

Oh yes, the past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it or learn from it.

When I hear that a personal friend has fallen into matrimonial courses, I feel the same sorrow as if I had heard of his lapsing into theism — a holy sorrow, unmixed with anger.

We're crazy, We're living on crazy ideas about love, about relationships, about happiness, about joy, about everything.

It is possible to fail in many ways . . . while to succeed is possible only in one way (for which reason also one is easy and the other difficult - to miss the mark easy, to hit it difficult).

If something boils up under stress later, I remind myself to breathe and focus back to how I decided my day was going to go. It's simple but it works.

The UK is becoming a pagan nation along with most European nations.

I would add a little more love in the world. It's ridiculous, I know, but it is one thing I would do.

The people I'm working with tend to be people I know, who are my friends, and I like hanging out with them. There's nothing better than making a long-term project with your friends. It's just dreamy.