Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.

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.

I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else.

The light that doesn't see its darkness but that of others is the darkness in the light of the light

I went to the little window and inhaled the country air. One could hear the breathing of the night, feminine, enormous.("The Blue Bouquet")

Morality like physical cleanliness is not acquired once and for all: it can only be kept and renewed by a habit of constant watchfulness and discipline.

It costs a lot of money to release a movie. What you'd call art-house movies - movies that don't have big stars or big budgets - they're very hard for distributors to get behind 'em and take chances.

Everyone from Canada and from here contributed [to the Sausage Party] - it truly is, like, every market.

I think that the boys have a tendency to be less receptive than the girls.

Impossibility is a log thrown on the fires of love.

My dream part would be to play Mitt Romney's sarcastic black maid. We could call it 'Mammy & Me.'

Magic is just a way of saying 'I don't know.'