Kenichi Ohmae Quotes

#1. We must teach our children to resolve their conflicts with words, not weapons.

William J. Clinton

#2. I believe I told you I am utterly serious. I never lie."
"Now that is a clanker if ever I heard one." she retorted.
"Well, then, I never lie about anything important."
Her hands found their way to her hips and she let out a loud, "Harumph.

Julia Quinn

#3. In Japan, organizations and people in the organization are synonymous.

Kenichi Ohmae

#4. The strategist's method is very simply to challenge the prevailing assumptions with a single question: Why?

Kenichi Ohmae

#5. Without competitors there would be no need for strategy.

Kenichi Ohmae

#6. We must not return to the practice of hiding our defects so they may not be seen. That would be neither honest nor revolutionary.

Che Guevara

#7. Analysis Is the Critical Starting Point of Strategic Thinking

Kenichi Ohmae

#8. Rowing harder doesn't help if the boat is headed in the wrong direction.

Kenichi Ohmae

#9. More strategies fail because they are overripe than because they are premature.

Kenichi Ohmae

#10. Nobody knows how Honda is organized, except that it uses lots of project teams and is quite flexible.

Kenichi Ohmae

#11. It took me three weeks to write the 'Rhapsody in Blue.' I had always wanted to write something blue and Paul Whiteman inspired.

George Gershwin

#12. New World Order: The Rise of the Region-State

Kenichi Ohmae

#13. When its family, you tolerate what you'd kill others for.

Dolly Parton

#14. He says I am from there, I am from here, but I am neither there nor here. I have two names which meet and part ... I have two languages, but I have long forgotten - which is the language of my dreams

Mahmoud Darwish

#15. The best possible solutions come only from a combination of a rational analysis based on the nature of things, and imaginative reintegration of all the different items into a new pattern, using non-linear brain power

Kenichi Ohmae

#16. If you're truly psychedelic the difference between living and dying is quite immaterial. No pun intended.

Terence McKenna

#17. What we are left with is an overmanipulated economy that can't function normally.

Kenichi Ohmae

#18. My inspiration is love and history.

Waris Ahluwalia