The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
AKIO MORITAThe “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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The company must not throw money away on huge bonuses for executives or other frivolities but must share its fate with the workers.
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In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues.
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All you need is the best product in the world, the most efficient production in the world and global marketing.
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I consider it my job to nurture the creativity of the people I work with because at Sony we know that a terrific idea is more likely to happen in an open, free and trusting atmosphere than when everything is calculated.
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My concept is that anybody has creative ability, but very few people know how to use it.
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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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It’s difficult to see new projects to fruition.
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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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If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
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Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.
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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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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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We treat employees as a member of the family.
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There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.
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To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
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