A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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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Our plan is to lead the public with new products rather than ask them what kind of products they want.
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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
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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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If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell it.
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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
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If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
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Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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We 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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It’s difficult to see new projects to fruition.
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The public does not know what is possible. We do.
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Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period.
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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 “patron saint” of Japanese quality control, ironically, is an American named W. Edwards Deming, who was virtually unknown in his own country until his ideas of quality control began to make such a big impact on Japanese companies.
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