The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
AKIO MORITAJapanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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We treat employees as a member of the family.
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It has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony – and in service.
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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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There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.
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I believe people work for satisfaction.
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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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Curiosity is the key to creativity.
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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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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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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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The most important mission for a Japanese manager is to develop a healthy relationship with his employees.
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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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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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Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
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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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