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.

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.

A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.

Never break another man's rice bowl.

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

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.