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.
AKIO MORITAThe public does not know what is possible. We do.
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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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In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues.
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But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.
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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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There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing.
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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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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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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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I often say to my assistants, “Never trust anybody,” but what I mean is that you should never trust someone else to do a job exactly the way you would want it done.
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To gain profit is important, but you must invest to build up assets that you can cash in in the future.
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The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.
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Carefully watch how people live, get an intuitive sense as to what they might want and then go with it.
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I consider it my job to nurture the creativity of the people I work with because at Sony we know that a terrific idea is more likely to happen in an open, free and trusting atmosphere than when everything is calculated.
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