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.

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

One cannot hire a hand; the whole man always comes with it.

Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

Unless the power of the corporation can be organized on an accepted principle of legitimacy, it will be taken over by a Central government

If you have too many problems, maybe you should get out of business. There is no law that says a company must last forever.

History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.