I established the rule that once we hire an employee, his school records are a matter of the past and are no longer used to evaluate his work or decide on his promotion.
AKIO MORITAIn the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues.
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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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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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In the long run, no matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty.
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Curiosity is the key to creativity.
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I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.
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The public does not know what is possible. We do.
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I believe people work for satisfaction.
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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 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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Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.
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But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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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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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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