Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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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But make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.
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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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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 all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business.
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Carefully watch how people live, get an intuitive sense as to what they might want and then go with it.
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To create a familylike feeling within the corporation, a feeling that employees and managers share the same fate.
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We treat employees as a member of the family.
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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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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
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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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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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If you go through life convinced that your way is always best, all the new ideas in the world will pass you by.
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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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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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