Soichiro Honda Quotes

I don't fight for anybody else besides myself and my family, so therefore I win.

What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.

My parents brought me up with this philosophy. You must do things. You mustn't watch what other people are doing. You must not listen to what other people are doing.

If [people] place such things as friendship and family ties above their own productive work, yes, then they are immoral. Friendship, family life and human relationships are not primary in a man's life. A man who places others first, above his own creative work, is an emotional parasite.

The obligation to amuse and instruct myself was entirely my own, and people who didn't know that were childish people, to be avoided if possible. Certainly not to be trusted.

The divine is God's concern; the human, man's. My concern is neither the divine nor the human, not the true, good, just, free, etc., but solely what is 'mine,' and it is not a general one, but is - 'unique,' as I am unique. Nothing is more to me than myself!

I don't need government to be successful.

I never think about what others are doing. I do a film for myself, not others.

But the egoist has no ideals, for the knowledge that his ideals are only his ideals, frees him from their domination. He acts for his own interest, not for the interest of ideals.

The only thing I find interesting is self-interest.

Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.

If I didn't want to work for a couple of years, I wouldn't have to-it's a great feeling, to know I'm doing it because I want to do it.

I didn't really care if I had a coach that much, me personally, because I was brought up to think for myself.

Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.

Do everything yourself.

You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they become entirely selfish.

You have to be concerned with yourself because if you're not on it all the time, nobody else is going to be.

All I have to do is what's right for me.

I'm my own salesman. I can't let anybody do anything for me.

I don't need to be motivated by anybody. Never have.

My parents are very conservative. They taught me the value of hard work - don't depend on other people, do it yourself.

I work hard and support myself.

When you're working for yourself and your own obsession with finding the truth, you're at your own mercy.

I learned a long time ago in Hollywood that the only person I should vote for is myself.

My father felt that children should make their own way.