In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues.
AKIO MORITAWe 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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The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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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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To create a familylike feeling within the corporation, a feeling that employees and managers share the same fate.
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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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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 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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Don’t do market research.
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Curiosity is the key to creativity.
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My chief job is to constantly stir or rekindle the curiosity of people that gets driven out by bureaucracy and formal schooling systems.
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
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If we face recession, we should not lay off employees; the company should sacrifice a profit. It’s management’s risk and management’s responsibility.
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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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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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