Fear inaction more than you fear failure from taking on a challenge.
チャレンジして失敗を恐れるよりも、何もしないことを恐れろ。

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Sōichirō Honda
Born in 1906, Soichiro Honda rose from repair apprentice to found Honda Motor in 1948. He conquered the Isle of Man TT and broke emissions barriers with the CVCC engine, proving Japanese engineering could lead the world.
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Sōichirō Honda's Other Quotes
Those who move others can feel what others feel. But empathizers struggle themselves. Those who never struggle will never move anyone.
An engineer is truly an engineer only when he creates something with his own hands.
Demand does not simply exist out there. We create it.
Only about one percent of my work truly succeeded. Ninety-nine percent was failure. That one percent made me who I am.
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