If the economy grows, housing gets better, quicker.

You have your own culture and your own ways of doing things. I hope Japan continues on this path.

I do think there will be more Japanese companies expanding out of Japan, and there will be more cross-border flow from Japan.

It's offensive to me to be called a cost cutter.

Part of the reason some Japanese companies have underperformed financially was corporate governance and board structures.

I have gotten disturbed at some of the Democrats' anti-business behavior, the sentiment, the attacks on work ethic and successful people. I think it's very counter-productive.

The toughest are people mistakes, when you put the wrong person in a job. Sometimes you're too slow to move them out. Or not getting the right people involved to solve a problem, or doing something out of anger; you learn, just don't do that. But I'd have to say the Whale was one of them, and I would also have to put Bear Stearns and Washington Mutual on the list at this point.