There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing.
AKIO MORITAThe only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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The remarkable thing about management is that a manager can go on for years making mistakes that nobody is aware of, which means that management can be a kind of a con job.
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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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I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.
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I believe people work for satisfaction.
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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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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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From a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people’s inborn creativity.
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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
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We treat employees as a member of the family.
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It’s difficult to see new projects to fruition.
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Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.
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I knew we needed a weapon to break through to the US market, and it had to be something different, something that nobody else was making.
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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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(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 “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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