An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
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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All you need is the best product in the world, the most efficient production in the world and global 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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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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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 best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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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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Every action analysed and every responsibility assigned by an organisation chart.
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I knew we needed a weapon to break through to the US market, and it had to be something different, something that nobody else was making.
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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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From a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people’s inborn creativity.
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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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The most important mission for a Japanese manager is to develop a healthy relationship with his employees.
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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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Don’t do market research.
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