There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.
AKIO MORITAJapanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.
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There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing.
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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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It has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony – and in service.
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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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Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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If you go through life convinced that your way is always best, all the new ideas in the world will pass you by.
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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
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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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More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.
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Curiosity is the key to creativity.
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We treat employees as a member of the family.
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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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In the long run, no matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty.
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