I believe it is a big mistake to think that money is the only way to compensate a person for his work.
AKIO MORITAThe remarkable thing about management is that a manager can go on for years making mistakes that nobody is aware of, which means that management can be a kind of a con job.
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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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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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My concept is that anybody has creative ability, but very few people know how to use it.
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Executives of the company must have the necessary qualities to direct the personnel by showing them the way to do things.
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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 to keep the company healthy and its employees happy, and we want to keep them on the job and productive.
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There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing.
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The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
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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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If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell it.
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Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period.
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We don’t believe in market research for a new product unknown to the public. So we never do any.
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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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Every action analysed and every responsibility assigned by an organisation chart.
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