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.

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

I knew we needed a weapon to break through to the US market, and it had to be something different, something that nobody else was making.

We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business. And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.

From a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people's inborn creativity. My concept is that anybody has creative ability, but very few people know how to use it.

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