Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.
AKIO MORITAAll you need is the best product in the world, the most efficient production in the world and global marketing.
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We 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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People need money, but they also want to be happy in their work and proud of it.
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In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues.
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Our plan is to lead the public with new products rather than ask them what kind of products they want.
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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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It has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony – and in service.
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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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Every action analysed and every responsibility assigned by an organisation chart.
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There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.
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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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To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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I believe it is a big mistake to think that money is the only way to compensate a person for his work.
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The most important mission for a Japanese manager is to develop a healthy relationship with his employees.
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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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Executives of the company must have the necessary qualities to direct the personnel by showing them the way to do things.
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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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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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I believe people work for satisfaction.
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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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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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There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing.
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Management of an industrial company must be giving targets to the engineers constantly; that may be the most important job management has in dealing with its engineers.
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My chief job is to constantly stir or rekindle the curiosity of people that gets driven out by bureaucracy and formal schooling systems.
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