Every now and then there was, he sang ruefully, a little lesson "yn Welsh chware teg".

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During his four years at Toyota's helm, Toyoda has learned the hard way the costs of blindly pursuing growth, a strategy inherited from his predecessor that he ruefully acknowledges got him slammed by a cascade of recalls.

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