In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues.
AKIO MORITATo create a familylike feeling within the corporation, a feeling that employees and managers share the same fate.
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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
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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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More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.
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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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The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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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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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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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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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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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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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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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
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