When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
AKIO MORITATo have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
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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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It’s difficult to see new projects to fruition.
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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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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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More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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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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I knew we needed a weapon to break through to the US market, and it had to be something different, something that nobody else was making.
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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
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The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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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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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
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From a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people’s inborn creativity.
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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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