The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
AKIO MORITAMy solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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I have always made it a point to know our employees, to visit every facility of our company, and to try to meet and know every single employee.
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The company must not throw money away on huge bonuses for executives or other frivolities but must share its fate with the workers.
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And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.
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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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The public does not know what is possible. We do.
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If you go through life convinced that your way is always best, all the new ideas in the world will pass you by.
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Don’t do market research.
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To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
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We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business.
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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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To create a familylike feeling within the corporation, a feeling that employees and managers share the same fate.
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Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.
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Advertising and promotion alone will not sustain a bad product or a product that is not right for the times.
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I believe one of the reasons we went through such a remarkable growth period was that we had this atmosphere of free discussion.
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Of course we have to make a profit, but we have to make a profit over the long haul, not just the short term, and that means we must keep investing in research and development.
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