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Sumitomo Quotes with Enduring Value
- “Put your heart into everything you do.”
- “Disobey your master’s order and benefit him. That is loyalty.”
- “I will follow the path of justice and equity, undertaking projects beneficial to the nation from a long-term perspective.”
- “Continuously cultivate your personal qualities.”
- “A man of noble character esteems wealth and is scrupulous in seeking the ethical way to acquire it.”
- “A forestation plan in the spirit of repaying for what had been reaped from the land.”
- “Benefit self and benefit others, private and public interests are one and the same.”
- “Planning imbued with a farsighted perspective”
- “Looking back at the receding traces of five years: snow-covered mountains”
- “Revering these mountains as gods—awed and humbled to have mined here for generations”
- “The planted larch trees are burnished gold. What a wondrous forest they have become.”
- “An enterprise like no other. Desiring to extract inexhaustible red copper for the nation’s economy. A railway, cleaving the heavens in twain, is the essential link.”
- “Though accustomed to toiling deep underground, all pray to the god Oyamatsumi as they enter the tunnel.”
- “A mighty reddish outcrop breaks the surface, breaching the snowfield”
- “As the Besshi Copper Mines approach the end of their working life, I want to promote industrial development as a new source of prosperity.”
- “What joy! Gold has acquired added luster. Reflected in spring waters, this will be the source of delight for millennia.”
- “Don’t view business as a battlefield where conflicting interests fight for profit. Devote yourself to the achievement of ethical economic development. Contribute to the sound development of the nation and to the betterment of society through Sumitomo’s business.”
- “The House of Sumitomo’s policy emphasizes the need for the most careful consideration when contemplating embarking on a new business. Nevertheless, I urge you to be energetic in proposing improvements to existing businesses and in identifying sound and beneficial new businesses.”
- “I want you to form a spiritual alliance so that, come what may, you never lose your sense of brotherhood.”
- Time-honored Way of the Sumitomo Family
Emphasis on forthright expression of views between master and retainer
- “Tie a string to the leg of a grilled fowl.”
- “Always be trustworthy and never tarnish the good name of the family.”
- “Parents want their children to serve us because of the Sumitomo family’s excellent customs. They trust us to train our retainers to become good people.”
- “If you can’t skillfully make good use of those who don’t follow your instructions, you are unworthy to be their superior.”
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