Masaru Ibuka Quotes

Success doesn't change you; fame does.

Just because you read it in a magazine,
Or see it on a TV screen
Don't make it factual.

Nobody makes me do anything I don't want to do. It's my decision. So the biggest devil is me. I'm either my best friend or my worst enemy. And that's how I have to deal with it.

You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.

去食、自古皆有死、民無信不立。

Nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

?It’ pretty hard for the Lord to guide you if you haven’t made up your mind which way to go.”

Much has been written of love turning to hatred, of the heart growing cold with the death of love. It is a remarkable process. It is far more terrible than anything I have ever read about it, more terrible than anything I will ever be able to say.

Success always obsoletes the very behavior that achieved it.

?There is no royal flower-strewn path to success. And if there is, I have not found it, for if I have accomplished anything in life, it is because I have been willing to work hard.

?sogar daß ihm auch wohl Philosophen, als einer gewissen Veredelung der Menschheit, eine Lobrede halten, uneingedenk des Ausspruchs jenes Griechen: »Der Krieg ist darin schlimm, daß er mehr böse Leute macht, als er deren wegnimmt«.

? my unhealthy timidity might be a great obstacle to me in my life.

I shall never be able to have any more of these boyish, zestful affairs — which are, really, when one thinks about it, a kind of higher, or, anyway, more pretentious masturbation. People are too various to be treated so lightly.

唯女子與小人爲難養也！近之則不孫，遠之則怨。

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.