Open the shoji screen and look outside; the world is vast.

Think on the shop floor; act on the shop floor.

Do not think about a hundred things at once; think a hundred times about one thing.

Invention lies not in knowledge itself but in the ingenuity to apply it.

Divide each difficulty into as many parts as possible for a better solution.

-- René Descartes

Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain.

-- Henry Ford

Solving big problems is easier than solving small ones.

-- Sergey Brin

Invert, always invert.

-- Charlie Munger

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

-- J. P. Morgan

I don't want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell me how to do what I want to do.

-- J. P. Morgan