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.

Commerce is the art of inspiring customers.

Endure and renounce.

-- Epictetus

Fire tests gold; adversity tests strong people.

-- Seneca

Bodily pain does not last without limit; intense pain is brief in duration.

-- Epicurus

Learning must never cease.

-- Xunzi

If you carve without ceasing, even metal and stone can be engraved.

-- Xunzi

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

-- Friedrich Nietzsche