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.
AKIO MORITAWe all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business.
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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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We treat employees as a member of the family.
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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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Advertising and promotion alone will not sustain a bad product or a product that is not right for the times.
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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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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart’s desire their technological capacity.
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To create a familylike feeling within the corporation, a feeling that employees and managers share the same fate.
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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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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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If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell it.
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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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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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