My concept is that anybody has creative ability, but very few people know how to use it.
AKIO MORITAThere is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.
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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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People need money, but they also want to be happy in their work and proud of it.
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Americans make money by playing `money games,’ namely mergers, acquisitions, by simply moving money back and forth … instead of creating and producing goods with some actual value.
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Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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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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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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(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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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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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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I have always made it a point to know our employees, to visit every facility of our company, and to try to meet and know every single employee.
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In the long run, no matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty.
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I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.
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To gain profit is important, but you must invest to build up assets that you can cash in in the future.
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We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business.
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Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.
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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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We want to keep the company healthy and its employees happy, and we want to keep them on the job and productive.
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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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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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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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We treat employees as a member of the family.
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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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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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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 management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
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But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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