If you go through life convinced that your way is always best, all the new ideas in the world will pass you by.
AKIO MORITAJapanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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I believe it is a big mistake to think that money is the only way to compensate a person for his work.
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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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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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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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Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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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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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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We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business.
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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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If you trust your colleague today, he may be your competitor tomorrow, because people frequently move from one company to another.
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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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In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues.
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(Japanese Government believes that if you have a big laboratory with all the latest equipment and good funding it will automatically lead to creativity. It doesn’t work that way.
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