Being in a multicultural environment in childhood is going to give you intuition, reflexes and instincts. You may acquire basic responsiveness later on, but it's never going to be as spontaneous as when you have been bathing in this environment during childhood.

The low price of oil is a headwind to investments in alternative energy technologies, but it will not stop them.

When your results are good, you are obviously going to have a lot of press. And when you start to falter a little bit, you are going to have some criticism, and there is nothing abnormal in that.

The Japanese people are usually very prudent, even when they are convinced change is necessary.

We don't want to be something for everybody, we want to be everything for some people.

Business is tough; you need tough guys.

The biggest enemy of management is indifference. It's when people don't give a damn