Businesses should be focused on business and social responsibility should be government responsibility.

I respect the Japanese and especially like their execution and communication styles. Unlike the Koreans, they will not hit you from behind.

Hungry people have especially clear minds.

I never think I am successful. If I am successful, then I should be retired. If I am not retired, then that means I should still be working hard, keeping the company running.

As human beings are also animals, to manage one million animals gives me a headache.

I always tell employees: The group's benefit is more important than your personal benefit.

You can never make a city as clean as the nature itself. To do this, you must completely demolish the city and convert it into the pure nature.

You can't just let nature run wild.

In the decade ahead I can predict that we will provide over twice the productivity improvement that we provided in the '90s.

I'm in favor of immigration but we also need rules.

The first thing I need to get sorted out before I can then move forward, before I can feel any confidence whatsoever, is the voice.

Nine times out of ten, when you extend your arms to someone, they will step in, because basically they need precisely what you need.

I know how to make money. That's what I know. Not too many people know that, that well.

[A cat] will lie the whole evening on your knee, purring and happy in your society.

Only with a leaf can I talk of the forest

The Cha-Cha is no more ridiculous than life itself.