Soichiro Honda Quotes

101 Soichiro Honda Quotes

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[On being asked if he had run a business analysis based on the strengths and weaknesses of his own company (SWOT analysis) and those of his competitors when considering whether to evolve from a motorbike manufacturer to an automobile producer] If our team had run a business analysis, we would never have ventured into the car business. I simply made a list of the weaknesses of the world’s biggest carmakers – and that list was quite long.
Soichiro Honda

Where 100 people think, there are 100 powers; if 1,000 people think, there are 1,000 powers.
Soichiro Honda

Japanese and American management styles are 95 percent the same – and different in all important aspects.
Soichiro Honda

Do not imitate others.
Soichiro Honda

I hate college graduates. They only use their heads.
Soichiro Honda

The worst kind of president is a person who eats in fancy restaurants, smoking a fat cigar and thinking well of himself while employees work in a dirty factory with their hands dirty. If you're like a god, people will respect you, but they won't come close.
Soichiro Honda

Success is only one percent of your work, and the rest – bold overcoming of obstacles. If you are not afraid of them, success will come to you itself. Let’s use this to power a bicycle
Soichiro Honda

Our company is going to be the world’s biggest motorcycle manufacturer’
Soichiro Honda

The day I stop dreaming is the day I die.
Soichiro Honda

Honda has always moved ahead of the times, and I attribute its success to the fact that the firm possesses dreams and youthfulness.
Soichiro Honda



[In 1954] Since I was a small child, one of my dreams has been to compete in motor vehicles races all over the world with a vehicle of my own making, and to win.
Soichiro Honda

The world is advancing at tremendous speed.
Soichiro Honda

The fighting spirit that is my nature will no longer allow me to continue turning away.
Soichiro Honda

I am filled with an abundant, unshakable confidence that I can win.
Soichiro Honda

I have absolute confidence, the time of opportunity has arrived.
Soichiro Honda

When this engine is completed on the basis of our company’s creativity, it will be no exaggeration whatsoever to say that it will rank at the worlds highest levels of engineering.
Soichiro Honda

To achieve this, it must be supported by meticulous attention to detail and unremitting effort.
Soichiro Honda

The future of Honda Motor Co depends on this, and the burden rests on your shoulders. I want you to turn your surging enthusiasm to this task, endure every trial, and press through with all the minute demands of work and research, making this your own chosen path. The advances made by Honda Motor Co are the growth you achieve as human beings, and your growth is what assures our Honda Motor Co its future.
Soichiro Honda

Action without philosophy is a lethal weapon; philosophy without action is worthless.
Soichiro Honda

When you place yourself in situations where there are no alternatives, a kind of freedom is born in you, the freedom that comes from a decision you made from which there is no turning back.
Soichiro Honda



We all have the right to our crazy dreams.
Soichiro Honda



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