...if you are nothing but profit-conscious, you cannot see the opportunities ahead. - Akio Morita

...without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period, it's difficult to see new projects to fruition.

The most important mission for a Japanese manager is to develop a healthy relationship with his employees, to create a familylike feeling within the corporation, a feeling that employees and managers share the same fate.

We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business. And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.