My chief job is to constantly stir or rekindle the curiosity of people that gets driven out by bureaucracy and formal schooling systems.
AKIO MORITAWhile the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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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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Carefully watch how people live, get an intuitive sense as to what they might want and then go with it.
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(Japanese Government believes that if you have a big laboratory with all the latest equipment and good funding it will automatically lead to creativity. It doesn’t work that way.
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The public does not know what is possible. We do.
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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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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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Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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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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To create a familylike feeling within the corporation, a feeling that employees and managers share the same fate.
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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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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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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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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
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