Americans make money by playing `money games,’ namely mergers, acquisitions, by simply moving money back and forth … instead of creating and producing goods with some actual value.
AKIO MORITAAmenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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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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The remarkable thing about management is that a manager can go on for years making mistakes that nobody is aware of, which means that management can be a kind of a con job.
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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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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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Once you have a staff of prepared, intelligent, and energetic people, the next step is to motivate them to be creative.
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It’s difficult to see new projects to fruition.
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Advertising and promotion alone will not sustain a bad product or a product that is not right for the times.
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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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Carefully watch how people live, get an intuitive sense as to what they might want and then go with it.
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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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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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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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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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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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