People need money, but they also want to be happy in their work and proud of it.
AKIO MORITAWe 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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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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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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Every action analysed and every responsibility assigned by an organisation chart.
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And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.
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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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Don’t do market research.
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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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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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Executives of the company must have the necessary qualities to direct the personnel by showing them the way to do things.
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Once you have a staff of prepared, intelligent, and energetic people, the next step is to motivate them to be creative.
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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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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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All you need is the best product in the world, the most efficient production in the world and global marketing.
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