We want to keep the company healthy and its employees happy, and we want to keep them on the job and productive.
AKIO MORITAAnd then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.
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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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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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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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The company must not throw money away on huge bonuses for executives or other frivolities but must share its fate with the workers.
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Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
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My concept is that anybody has creative ability, but very few people know how to use it.
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People need money, but they also want to be happy in their work and proud of it.
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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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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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Our plan is to lead the public with new products rather than ask them what kind of products they want.
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If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
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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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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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