I learned that people don't buy anything from unknown stores.

I might look successful but I've made many mistakes. People take their failures too seriously. You have to be positive and believe you will find success next time.

More than trends, consumers need functionality. Everything needs an element of fashion, but thats more like a spice.

If you always think about your dreams or goals, work steadfastly towards them and continue to challenge yourself, you will definitely be able to realise those dreams or goals.

It is clothes. It is parts. Therefore, you combine the parts differently to create your own unique expression.

I hate politics. What they say and what they do is completely different.

We are a country of artisans and a country of manufacturing. I think Japanese textile technology is the best in the world.

I tell people that we must have the courage to share what we feel, but no one follows me.

Japanese businesspeople and companies are lacking in individuality.

Konosuke Matsushita was a visionary entrepreneur. He started working very young as a teenager, and he eventually created Panasonic to become a truly global company.

Japan's biggest problems are conservatism and cowardice.

Walk with me, memory to memory, the shared path, the mutual view. Walk with me. The past lies in wait. It is not behind. It seems to be in front. How else could it trip me as as I start to run?

Where there is little thinking, there is big shaping of the people! ~

Nobody ever tells me to give them a pass or anything. My job is to score goals, and if I don't shoot the puck, I can't score goals.

Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.

I'm always telling my kids to be themselves and let their personalities show in other ways than with their mouths.

A compelling story, even if factually inaccurate, can be more emotionally compelling than a dry recitation of the truth.

For theories and schools, like microbes and corpuscles, devour one another and by their strife ensure the continuity of life.

And I have a really great agent and I know it's almost an oxymoron to say you have a smart agent. But she is and she has a beautiful aesthetic and she has guided me.

It's much easier to have something that's absolutely definite and has a definite identity, rather than a really generic role.

Most Christians are being crucified on a cross between two thieves: Yesterday's regret and tomorrow's worries.