Katsuaki Watanabe quotes

Being satisfied with the status quo means you are not making progress
-- Katsuaki Watanabe

#Business #Mean #Progress

There's no end to the process of learning about the Toyota Way. I don't think I have a complete understanding even today, and I have worked for the company for 43 years.
-- Katsuaki Watanabe

#Thinking #Years #Understanding

Artists are often excellent businessmen. They have to be. Otherwise they do not remain artists.

When you get into this business you have to grow up quickly. But I wouldn't say I've lost any of my childhood, I've always been a mature child. My Mom says I've been like that since I was little kid. I make time for my friends and I make time for things that other kids do. This is a business and I knew what I was getting into. I make time for being a kid, but I also know when to put on my business hat and go for the business.

Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.

Humility means that one should not be anxious to have the satisfaction of being honored by others.

You can't be without passion. Passion means the possessiveness to be the best.

We two remake our world by naming it / Together, knowing what words mean for us / And for the other for whom current coin / Is cold speech--but we say, the tree, the pool, / And see the fire in the air, the sun, our sun, / Anybody's sun, the world's sun, but here, now / Particularly our sun....

First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.

I define "grindin'" as just nonstop work! Nonstop work, nonstop progress. Can't sleep during that grind - I mean, you get a little bit of it, but if you're progressin' at every hour, every second, you are grindin'.

But even more: all at once the Jew also becomes liberal and begins to rave about the necessary progress of mankind.

Famously, there's not really anywhere to go after nihilism. It's not progressing toward anything, it's a statement of outrage, however brilliant.