To create a familylike feeling within the corporation, a feeling that employees and managers share the same fate.
AKIO MORITAAmerica looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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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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If you trust your colleague today, he may be your competitor tomorrow, because people frequently move from one company to another.
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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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Don’t do market research.
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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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The public does not know what is possible. We do.
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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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To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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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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The important thing in my view is not to pin the blame for a mistake on somebody, but rather to find out what caused the mistake.
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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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All you need is the best product in the world, the most efficient production in the world and global marketing.
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Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period.
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