Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
AKIO MORITAJapanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.
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Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period.
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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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Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.
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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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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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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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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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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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More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.
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I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.
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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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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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Never break another man’s rice bowl.
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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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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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All you need is the best product in the world, the most efficient production in the world and global marketing.
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The most important mission for a Japanese manager is to develop a healthy relationship with his employees.
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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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There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing.
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I believe people work for satisfaction.
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The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
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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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We treat employees as a member of the family.
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