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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.

Akio Morita

There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.
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Company Ingredient Responsible Secret Success
If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
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Hiring Management Responsible Risk Take
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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Always Company Employee Facility Made Meet Single Trying
Carefully watch how people live, get an intuitive sense as to what they might want and then go with it.
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Carefully Go Intuitive Night People Research Sense Want Watch
I established the rule that once we hire an employee, his school records are a matter of the past and are no longer used to evaluate his work or decide on his promotion.
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Employee Establish Evaluate Longer Matter Past Promotion Record School
The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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Business Only Sure Thing
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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Country Create Creating Game Good Merger Money Moving Namely Play Treat
Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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Business Future Hand Hire People
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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Asset Cash Future Gain Important Profit
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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Company Employee Happy Healthy Job Keep Productive Want
I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.
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Decision Fault Feel Hire Made People
The public does not know what is possible. We do.
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Business Do Doe Know Public
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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Break Country Different Market Need Something Through Weapon
And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.
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Ability Blend Grow Innate Learn Principle Up
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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Began Big Country Idea Impact Ironically Quality Virtual
I believe people work for satisfaction.
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Believe People Satisfaction Work

(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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(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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