Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will march straight ahead without looking back.

My criticism is too severe sometimes and that is not good. But why don't you start doing your work unless your leader flies into a rage? It is not that you cannot do it but that you don't want to do it.

I take great pride in having been able to overcome the Asian financial crisis and seeking the opportunities available to bring about an unprecedented growth in the economy.

The World Bank can only survive if it's spending money.

You work to earn money. But in Japan, that idea has a bad image, and you're not supposed to say that.

Fashion was more of a sideline for me. I did it for the money.

I always felt like if you get to a point where you've got enough money to invest in something real, you gotta invest in anything that's related to a natural resource because that's gonna be here forever - so you might as well invest in something that's gonna be here, rather than invest in something that's gonna wear out.