You can be totally rational with a machine.
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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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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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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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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From a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people’s inborn creativity.
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Don’t do market research.
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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart’s desire their technological capacity.
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There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing.
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If we do our best and make efforts, a peaceful and great future will become ours without fail.
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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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My concept is that anybody has creative ability, but very few people know how to use it.
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We don’t believe in market research for a new product unknown to the public. So we never do any.
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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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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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To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
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