Nobody in the world is as good at making decisions as the Japanese.

Innovation opportunities do not come with the tempest but with the rustling of the breeze.

Businesses once grew by one of two ways; grass roots up, or by acquisition... Today businesses grow through alliances - all kinds of dangerous alliances. Joint ventures and customer partnerings which, by the way, very few people understand.

The single minded ones, the monomaniacs, are the only true achievers

For the first four years, no new enterprise produces profits. Even Mozart didn't start writing music until he was four.

Information is the manager's main tool, indeed the manager's capital, and it is he who must decide what information he needs and how to use it.

If a business is to be considered a continuous process, instead of a series of disjointed stop-and-go events, then the economic universe in which a business operates-and all the major events within it-must have rhyme, rhythm, or reason.