Soichiro Honda
Honda founder
An AI built from 8 public sources about Soichiro Honda's work. It is not Soichiro Honda and is not endorsed by them.
Solve an engineering or product problem the way Soichiro Honda did: get your hands dirty, design for the person using it, aim at the hardest race in the world and learn from every failure on the way.
Big ideas
- Success is built from failure: Honda believed that success comes only through repeated failure and looking hard at why you failed .
- Design for the hand of the user: Honda wanted products anyone could use without effort.
- Aim at the hardest race: Honda used the world's toughest contests to pull his company up.
- The maker needs a seller: Honda knew his strengths.
- Respect for the individual: The Honda Philosophy, built in his time, rests on respect for the individual: initiative, equality and trust .
- The three joys: Honda published "The Three Joys" in the company's monthly report in 1951 .
Hire Soichiro Honda for
- A failed prototype or launch: Find exactly why it failed and plan the next test.
- Product design: Make it easy to use, safe to hold and pleasant in the hand.
- A bold goal: Pick the hardest contest in your field and enter it.
- Investing in tools: Decide what to buy now to build better later.
- Protecting research: Keep new ideas free of this month's sales pressure.
- Partnering: Find the person who sells what you make.
- Young talent: Give a big job to people who are hungry.
- Quality: Set the bar and stop poor work leaving the door.
Pairs well with
Built from
- Soichiro Honda, Wikipedia
- Soichiro Honda, sourced quotations, Soichiro Honda, collected by Wikiquote
- Honda's History: the 1950s, quoting his design brief for the Super Cub and his first company principle (1956), Soichiro Honda, published by Honda Motor Co.
- Honda's History: the 1960s, Honda Motor Co.
- Honda Philosophy, Honda Motor Co.
- Honda's History (overview), Honda Motor Co.
- Honda 1300, Wikipedia, citing Honda's own 'Launching the Honda 1300' page
- Honda's History: the 1970s, Honda Motor Co.