Failure teaches success.
—Japanese Proverb
If you want to know what’s happening in the market, ask the market.
—Japanese Proverb
Where there is laughter happiness likes to be.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Happiness
Character can be built on daily routine.
—Japanese Proverb
It is better to be ignorant than mistaken.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Mistakes
When the time comes, even a rat becomes a tiger.
—Japanese Proverb
When you’re dying of thirst it’s too late to think about digging a well.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Planning
A wild goose may be worth a hundred pieces of gold, but you first have to spend three pieces of gold to buy an arrow.
—Japanese Proverb
The feet are the gateway to 10,000 illnesses.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Health
Children grow up, with or without parents.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Parents
When a bonsai stops growing, you know it’s dead.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Growth
If you are looking for bad luck, you will soon find it.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Luck
Advertising is the mother of trade.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Advertising
Only when the coffin is closed will we see how long lasting is the name.
—Japanese Proverb
Only through suffering and sorrow do we acquire the wisdom not found in books.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Book
Let the past drift away with the water.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Past, Moving on, Reflection
I will master something, then the creativity will come.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Creativity
If you are going out for a fight leave your best hat at home.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Fighting, Home
The tongue is but three inches long, yet it can kill a man six feet high.
—Japanese Proverb
Heroes cannot stand side by side.
—Japanese Proverb
The lawyer will extend the frontiers of a fight.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Lawyers
The reverse side also has a reverse side.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Perspective
One thousand days to learn; ten thousand days to refine.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Learning
Wisdom is lost in a fat man’s body.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: The Body
The heaviest rains fall on the house that leaks most.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Rain
Getting money is like digging with a needle. Spending it is like water soaking into the sand.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Money
A man’s heart changes as often as does the autumn sky.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Heart, Change
Poetry moves heaven and earth.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Heaven
Where profit is, loss is hiding nearby.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Profit
Knowledge without wisdom is a load of books on the back of an ass.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Knowledge, Wisdom, Book
Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Happiness, Joy
If he works for you, you work for him.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Service
Numerous words show scanty wares.
—Japanese Proverb
The human heart is neither of stone nor wood.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Heart
Money grows on the tree of patience.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Proverbs
The nail that sticks up will be hammered down.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Individuality
It is a beggar’s pride that he is not a thief
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Proverbs, Pride
Even in hell you meet relations.
—Japanese Proverb
Tsuki ni murakumo, hana ni kaze
Clouds over the moon, a storm over blossoms
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Luck
You are wise to climb Mt. Fuji, but a fool to do it twice.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Wisdom