He also had a firm belief that Sumitomo should always keep a spirit of serving the nation before everything else, and Sumitomo should be willing to join hands with other major capitalists all over Japan if necessary, without being caught up in their small pride, in order to accomplish great businesses that should need more than Sumitomo's capital to be completed but would definitely contribute to Japan.
また「もしその事業が本当に日本の為になるもので、しかも住友のみの資本では到底成し遂げられない大事業であれば、住友はちっぽけな自尊心に囚われないで何時でも進んで住友自体を放下し、日本中の大資本家と合同し、敢然之を造上げようという雄渾なる大気魄を絶えず確りと蓄えて居ねばならない」という言葉も残している。