While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
AKIO MORITAJapanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.
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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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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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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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And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.
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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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Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period.
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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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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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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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Advertising and promotion alone will not sustain a bad product or a product that is not right for the times.
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It’s difficult to see new projects to fruition.
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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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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell it.
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Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.
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