"A Japanese banker said to me: "Before the war we had a saying that 'Business is like a folding screen. It won't stand unless it is crooked. Make it straight and it will fall.' We acted on that. The consequence was that we had a very bad reputation for our goods - beautiful, but shoddy. Then at the close of the war we decided to change and adopt the Christian idea of loving your neighbor as yourself
and doing unto others as you would have them do unto you. We did this nationally, and the government watched all the goods manufactured in Japan and made them conform to the new pattern. Result? Our reputation went up and now Japanese manufactured goods are tops and our economy is humming."
