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.

A sunao (open) mind sees the truth of things without being trapped by preconceptions.

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

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

Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

-- Henry Ford

My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact.

-- Larry Page

There is an immutable conflict at heart of business between impulse and caution, between youth and experience, between the entrepreneurial spirit and the seasoned veteran's prudence.

-- Phil Knight

Exceed your customers' expectations. If you do, they'll come back over and over. Give them what they want — and a little more.

-- Sam Walton

Face reality squarely and start from there. That is the foundation of management.

-- Tadashi Yanai

Management is a battle with contradiction.

-- Tadashi Yanai