Akio Toyoda Quotes

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

Akio Toyoda

#2. 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.

Akio Toyoda

#3. When we hesitate to change on time, we predispose ourselves to miss the boat that would take us to our envious future...

Assegid Habtewold

#4. But now Cathy had created the restlessness, the indignation, the beginnings of that shameful need to clamber aboard my spavined white steed, knock the rust off the armor, tilt the crooked old lance and shout huzzah. Sleep immediately followed decision.

John D. MacDonald

#5. I was once told that flying involves long hours of boredom, interrupted by moments of extreme fright.

Franklin W. Dixon

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

Akio Toyoda

#7. 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.

Akio Toyoda

#8. 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.

Akio Toyoda

#9. Hunters will tell you that a moose is a wily and ferocious forest creature. Nonsense. A moose is a cow drawn by a three-year-old.

Bill Bryson

#10. He is no God who merely satisfies the intellect, if He ever does.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

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

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

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#14. I like to read and write and take pictures and bike.

Alex D. Linz

#15. Love means eventual pain victory means eventual defeat

Charles Bukowski

#16. 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.

Akio Toyoda

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

Akio Toyoda

#18. 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.

Akio Toyoda