The company must not throw money away on huge bonuses for executives or other frivolities but must share its fate with the workers.
AKIO MORITAIn the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues.
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Don’t do market research.
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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell it.
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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
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But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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We don’t believe in market research for a new product unknown to the public. So we never do any.
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The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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We want to keep the company healthy and its employees happy, and we want to keep them on the job and productive.
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If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
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To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
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In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues.
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Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.
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