If you don't want Japan to buy it, don't sell it.

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

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.

Americans make money by playing `money games,' namely mergers, acquisitions, by simply moving money back and forth ... instead of creating and producing goods with some actual value.

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

There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.

My chief job is to constantly stir or rekindle the curiosity of people that gets driven out by bureaucracy and formal schooling systems.