We represent companies from around the world who say, "I want to look at Japanese companies. I want to invest in Japan."

The government has the right to change laws and rules and regulations.

You read constantly that banks are lobbying regulators and elected officials as if this is inappropriate. We don't look at it that way.

Don't do anything stupd. And don't waste money. Let everybody else waste money and do stupid things; then we'll buy them.

Just because you have a good hand today doesn't mean it's good tomorrow. And some of the things we're doing may become very disadvantageous at some point.

My daughter asked me when she came home from school, "What's the financial crisis?" and I said, it's something that happens every five to seven years.

Our plate is full. We have a lot to do building our company organically and that is our key focus.

We're going to do the right thing for the company and our customers, all things considered.

Businesses can be opaque. They are complex. You don't know how aircraft engines work either.

We have built a very good company, and we're proud of it. We also recognize that much of it has been built on the shoulders of the thousands of employees and leaders who have worked here before us.

You never know exactly how new policies are going to work. That doesn't mean you shouldn't try them.

If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.

Twenty-five, he was. Twenty-five tomorrow. Some years the snow had melted for his birthday, but not this year, and so it had been a long winter full of cows.

My court was divided between peace and war according to their various interests, but I considered only their reasons.

If I hadn't gone through some of the painful experiences in my life, I would not be me.

We thought I was going to be a great athlete, and we were wrong, and I thought I was going to be a great entertainer, and that wasn't it either. I'm going to be an American Citizen. First class.

The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty bothers.

Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears.

Words can be deceitful, but pantomime necessarily is simple, clear and direct

You can't make me love you.

I’m not producing movies to make money