To create a familylike feeling within the corporation, a feeling that employees and managers share the same fate.
AKIO MORITAIn the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues.
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If we face recession, we should not lay off employees; the company should sacrifice a profit. It’s management’s risk and management’s responsibility.
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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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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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Never break another man’s rice bowl.
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The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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It’s difficult to see new projects to fruition.
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If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
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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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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business.
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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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(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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I believe it is a big mistake to think that money is the only way to compensate a person for his work.
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Curiosity is the key to creativity.
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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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