If we face recession, we should not lay off employees; the company should sacrifice a profit. It's management's risk and management's responsibility. Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?

I believe one of the reasons we went through such a remarkable growth period was that we had this atmosphere of free discussion.

You can be totally rational with a machine. But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.

Curiosity is the key to creativity.

A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.

But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.

If you go through life convinced that your way is always best, all the new ideas in the world will pass you by.

In the long run, no matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty, your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.

To gain profit is important, but you must invest to build up assets that you can cash in in the future.

Carefully watch how people live, get an intuitive sense as to what they might want and then go with it. Don’t do market research.

We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

If a man realizes who he is, he understands that if he must, he can start from the beginning and achieve success again

I want something that is nothing like the past.

There's something about the ukulele that just makes you smile. It makes you let your guard down. It brings out the child in all of us.

I had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s.

Order, cleanliness, seemliness make a structure that is half support, half ritual, and - if it does not create it - maintains decency.

Architecture is the work of nations

I have had a great deal of interaction with Koreans and feel a fairly strong bond with Korea.

If we continue to stay focused on our mission and not get sidetracked with everything else we stand a chance at really changing this world.

Whenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are going somewhere, because a man can't ride your back unless it is bent

To think of myself as a role model is extremely flattering, but I could never accept that, because Im just learning like everybody else.