Soichiro Quotes

#1. If you hire only those people you understand, the company will never get people better than you are. Always remember that you often find outstanding people among those you don't particularly like.

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#2. The value of life can be measured by how many times your soul has been deeply stirred.

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#3. Never let your failures go to your heart or your successes go to your head.

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#4. Success is 99 percent failure

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#5. The worst thing your parents can do is try to emulate you.

Rick Nielsen

#6. All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say is that 50 years ago there were no such thing as environmental policies.

David Attenborough

#7. There is a Japanese proverb that literally goes 'Raise the sail with your stronger hand', meaning you must go after the opportunities that arise in life that you are best equipped to do.

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#8. Success is ninety-nine percent failure.

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#9. Many people dream of success. To me, success can only be achieved through repeated failure and introspection.

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#10. The day I stop dreaming is the day I die.

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#11. Instead of being afraid of the challenge and failure, be afraid of avoiding the challenge and doing nothing

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#12. Enjoying your work is essential. If your work becomes an expression of your own ideas, you will surely enjoy it.

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#13. We only have one future, and it will be made of our dreams, if we have the courage to challenge convention.

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#14. Men's weaknesses are often necessary to the purposes of life.

Maurice Maeterlinck

#15. Man is not interesting without some imperfection

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#16. If Honda does not race, there is no Honda.

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#17. What did you think was going to happen? That Hell would be all unicorns and rainbows?

Amanda Carlson

#18. 90% of success is failure.

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#19. Each individual should work for himself. People will not sacrifice themselves for the company. They come to work at the company to enjoy themselves.

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#20. What we learn through failure becomes a precious part of us, strengthening us in everything we do. So let the tough things make you tougher.

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#21. I could not understand how it could move under its own power. And when it had driven past me, without even thinking why I found myself chasing it down the road, as hard as I could run.

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#22. If forgiveness is medicine for the soul, then gratitude is vitamins.

Steve Maraboli

#23. Real happiness lies in the completion of work using your own brains and skills.

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#24. Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure.

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#25. I believe it's time for direct action on climate change, standing together as ordinary Australians to take control of our shared future.

David Pocock