Once you have a staff of prepared, intelligent, and energetic people, the next step is to motivate them to be creative.

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

An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.

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.

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.

We don't believe in market research for a new product unknown to the public. So we never do any.

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