In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues.
AKIO MORITAWe want everybody to have the best facilities in which to work, but we do not believe in posh and impressive private offices.
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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It’s difficult to see new projects to fruition.
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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
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The important thing in my view is not to pin the blame for a mistake on somebody, but rather to find out what caused the mistake.
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I established the rule that once we hire an employee, his school records are a matter of the past and are no longer used to evaluate his work or decide on his promotion.
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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell it.
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The “patron saint” of Japanese quality control, ironically, is an American named W. Edwards Deming, who was virtually unknown in his own country until his ideas of quality control began to make such a big impact on Japanese companies.
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There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing.
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Don’t do market research.
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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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The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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In the long run, no matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty.
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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart’s desire their technological capacity.
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