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.

Never break another man's rice bowl.

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

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

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.

Curiosity is the key to creativity.

There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing. To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.