There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.
AKIO MORITA(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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If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
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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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Carefully watch how people live, get an intuitive sense as to what they might want and then go with it.
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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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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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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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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 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 feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.
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The public does not know what is possible. We do.
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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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And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.
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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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I believe people work for satisfaction.
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