Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
AKIO MORITAIn the long run, no matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty.
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Once you have a staff of prepared, intelligent, and energetic people, the next step is to motivate them to be creative.
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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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If we do our best and make efforts, a peaceful and great future will become ours without fail.
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But make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.
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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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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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From a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people’s inborn creativity.
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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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It has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony – and in service.
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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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Curiosity is the key to creativity.
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And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.
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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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There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.
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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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