The investor and the employee are in the same position, but sometimes the employee is more important, because he will be there a long time whereas an… - Akio Morita

The concept of lifetime employment arose when Japanese managers and employees both realized that they had much in common and that they had to make some long-range plans.

We made a completely new kind of transistor (the NPN BJT, and in our development work, our researcher, Leo Esaki, demonstrated the electron tunneling effect, which led to the development of the tunnel diode for which he was awarded a Nobel Prize seventeen years later, after he had joined IBM.

I have had my difficulties with the American legal system, and so I feel qualified to talk about it.