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

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.

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.

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.

To gain profit is important, but you must invest to build up assets that you can cash in in the future.

The important thing in my view is not to pin the blame for a mistake on somebody, but rather to find out what caused the mistake.

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.