The manufacturer's mission is to overcome poverty by producing goods in such abundance that they become as plentiful and cheap as tap water.

Never think you have exhausted every option. Stand at the cliff's edge, and a fresh wind will surely blow.

Matsushita Electric is in the business of developing people. We also happen to make electrical products.

Commerce is the art of inspiring customers.

It only becomes failure when you stop. Keep going until you succeed, and it becomes success.

People seek retreats in the country, by the sea, in the mountains — but you can retire into yourself whenever you choose.

-- Marcus Aurelius

It is easy to vanquish bandits in the mountains; it is hard to vanquish the bandits in one's heart.

-- Wang Yangming

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide.

-- Albert Camus

The man who dies rich dies disgraced.

-- Andrew Carnegie

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

-- George Soros

Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?

-- Paul Gauguin