America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.

Curiosity is the key to creativity.

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.

You can be totally rational with a machine. But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.

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.

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.