Quotes

For a true artist, life is a real academy. I am always both a student and a teacher. I have been teaching art to children since the age of eight. Now I am a co-founder of Akiane Arts School at Foreli Academy, where we are now enrolling students.

I don't belong to any religions, I really belong to God.

Love is so powerful. It will always show up on time to people who need it most.

I was just so surprised at the impeccable images I had in my head that I just had to express them in some sort of physical matter.

My family was very, very poor. We grew up in an environment that was so nurturing and so caring. Everything around us was beautiful.

So we led our lives in nature and spent a lot of time together as a family. That's how we picked things up and learned about life.

I was so young but started having these visions and impressions of the world.

Then as I turned seven, I gradually moved onto pastels and started painting on large canvases that were much bigger than me.

The Japanese keenly learned from Western civilisation in a bid to modernize and preserve the nation.

I am marrying her because I love her.

Don't be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.

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.

It is in Toyota's DNA that mistakes made once will not be repeated.

Everyone says Toyota is the best company in the world, but the customer doesn't care about the world. They care if we are the best in town, or not. That's what I want to be.

When consumers purchase a Toyota, they are not simply purchasing a car, truck or van. They are placing their trust in our company.

Trouble results when the speed of growth exceeds the speed of nurturing human resources. To use the analogy of growth rings in a tree, when unusually rapid growth caused the rings to grow abnormally thick, the tree trunk weakens and is easily broken.

People look at me and think I am an expert in the automobile industry, and I'm not.

For much of Toyota's history, we have ensured the quality and reliability of our vehicles by placing a device called an andon cord on every production line - and empowering any team member to halt production if there's an assembly problem. Only when the problem is resolved does the line begin to move again.

The hundreds of thousands of men and women at Toyota operations worldwide - including the 172,000 team members and dealers in North America - are among the best in the auto industry.

I ride many different cars. Let's say I would drive 200 different vehicles in a year, so it's rather difficult to say which car or what car I ride. I love cars.

With respect to sticking accelerator pedals, we failed to connect the dots between problems in Europe and problems in the United States because the European situation related primarily to right-hand-drive vehicles. Toyota will increase its outreach to government agencies charged with protecting the safety of motorists and passengers.

After I joined Toyota, there was a period when I drove more than 200 cars in one year - different types, other companies' cars. I want to be able to tell what distinguishes one car from the next.

I myself, as well as Toyota, am not perfect. I, more than anyone, wish for our customers' cars to be safe.

I am at the top of Toyota and drive cars myself. I was also born with this name.

I respect my father as a father, but I also respect him as an honorable chairman.