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.

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.

Japan's biggest problems are conservatism and cowardice.

Our underwear used to just be cotton, but we wanted to see if we could create something out of synthetics.

Not knowing when the dawn will comeI open every door.

Sometimes you can be so deeply wrapped up in a person that the only way to deal with it is to use cruelty to push them away.

There may be responsible persons, but there are no guilty ones.

Forgiveness doesn't mean forget what happened. If something is serious and it is necessary to take counter-measures, you have to take counter-measures.

As the writer, I may choose to ignore the emotional heart of the matter, and focus on details, and trust that the heart of the matter will be conveyed nevertheless.

Father's snoring grows to sound increasingly like a vacuum cleaner in heat.

One of the most frightening things about your true nerd, for may people, is not that he's socially inept - because everybody's been there - but rather his complete lack of embarrassment about it.

I always viewed life as material for a movie.

Be sincere in your thoughts, Be pure in your feelings. You will not have to run after happiness. Happiness will run after you.

I never pretended to have a great voice. It works and I can carry a tune. If you have a good song, that's about all that's required.