The main purpose of production is to manufacture items of good quality for daily use in abundant supply, thereby enhancing and improving the life for everyone and it is this goal that I am dedicated.
Konosuke MatsushitaRead
No matter how deep a study you make. What you really have to rely on is your own intuition and when it comes down to it, you really don't know what's going to happen until you do it.
Interpretation
Intuition is essential in decision-making, as knowledge alone does not guarantee outcomes.
This quote emphasizes the importance of trusting one's intuition alongside intellectual understanding. It suggests that no amount of study can predict future outcomes with certainty, and that taking action is crucial for realizing one's potential and navigating uncertainty.
In practice
During a motivational speech about embracing risks in business.
The main purpose of production is to manufacture items of good quality for daily use in abundant supply, thereby enhancing and improving the life for everyone and it is this goal that I am dedicated.
If we cannot make a profit, that means we are committing a sort of crime against society. We take society's capital, we take their people, we take their materials, yet without a good profit, we are using precious resources that could be better used elsewhere.
I hope that even if you remember not a single word of mine, you remember those of Seneca, another of those old Romans I met when I fled down the Classics corridor, in retreat from career ladders, in search of ancient wisdom: As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
Truth is a torch but a tremendous one. That is why we hurry past it, shielding our eyes, indeed, in fear of getting burned.
I've never been resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because although I couldn't sew, I could think.
For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
It's not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do - everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through & past the falls.
It's too bad failures don't give seminars. Wouldn't that be valuable? If you meet a guy who has messed up his life for forty years, you've just got to say, 'John, if I bring my journal and promise to take good notes, would you spend a day with me?'
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