But make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.
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Don’t do market research.
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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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If you trust your colleague today, he may be your competitor tomorrow, because people frequently move from one company to another.
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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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The important thing in my view is not to pin the blame for a mistake on somebody, but rather to find out what caused the mistake.
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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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If we face recession, we should not lay off employees; the company should sacrifice a profit. It’s management’s risk and management’s responsibility.
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Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.
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The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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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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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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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing.
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Our plan is to lead the public with new products rather than ask them what kind of products they want.
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The public does not know what is possible. We do.
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