(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.
AKIO MORITAJapanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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The public does not know what is possible. We do.
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Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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Advertising and promotion alone will not sustain a bad product or a product that is not right for the times.
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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period.
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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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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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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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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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We don’t believe in market research for a new product unknown to the public. So we never do any.
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We treat employees as a member of the family.
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Management of an industrial company must be giving targets to the engineers constantly; that may be the most important job management has in dealing with its engineers.
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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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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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