The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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But make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.
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If we do our best and make efforts, a peaceful and great future will become ours without fail.
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There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing.
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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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From a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people’s inborn creativity.
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Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
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Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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We don’t believe in market research for a new product unknown to the public. So we never do any.
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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.
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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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Once you have a staff of prepared, intelligent, and energetic people, the next step is to motivate them to be creative.
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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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The most important mission for a Japanese manager is to develop a healthy relationship with his employees.
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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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