The two most important requirements for major success are: first, being in the right place at the right time, and second, doing something about it.

If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.

Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.

None of us is as good as all of us.

Learning must never cease.

-- Xunzi

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

-- Xunzi

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

-- Kōnosuke Matsushita

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

-- Kōnosuke Matsushita

I don't want to destroy Toyota. But I want to change it.

-- Akio Toyoda

I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

-- Sam Walton