If you trust your colleague today, he may be your competitor tomorrow, because people frequently move from one company to another.
AKIO MORITAIf you trust your colleague today, he may be your competitor tomorrow, because people frequently move from one company to another.
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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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Our plan is to lead the public with new products rather than ask them what kind of products they want.
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Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
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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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The 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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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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In the long run, no matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty.
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My chief job is to constantly stir or rekindle the curiosity of people that gets driven out by bureaucracy and formal schooling systems.
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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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I believe one of the reasons we went through such a remarkable growth period was that we had this atmosphere of free discussion.
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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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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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My concept is that anybody has creative ability, but very few people know how to use it.
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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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All you need is the best product in the world, the most efficient production in the world and global marketing.
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