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.
AKIO MORITABut if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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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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Curiosity is the key to creativity.
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Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period.
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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
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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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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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And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.
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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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Of course we have to make a profit, but we have to make a profit over the long haul, not just the short term, and that means we must keep investing in research and development.
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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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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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The public does not know what is possible. We do.
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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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If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
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Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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