When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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 “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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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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Advertising and promotion alone will not sustain a bad product or a product that is not right for the times.
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But make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.
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To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
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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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The public does not know what is possible. We do.
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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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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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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
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(Japanese Government believes that if you have a big laboratory with all the latest equipment and good funding it will automatically lead to creativity. It doesn’t work that way.
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I believe it is a big mistake to think that money is the only way to compensate a person for his work.
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The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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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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