Never break another man's rice bowl.

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.

Never break another man's rice bowl.

When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job, I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.

We treat employees as a member of the family. If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.

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

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