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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.

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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.

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...the differences between U.S. and Japanese companies go beyond the cultural.

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... if you are nothing but profit-conscious, you cannot see the opportunities ahead.

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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.

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"While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers." '

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In all my years in business I can recall very few people I have wanted to fire for making mistakes.

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I have had my difficulties with the American legal system, and so I feel qualified to talk about it.

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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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There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.

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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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We want to keep the company healthy and its employees happy, and we want to keep them on the job and productive.

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We tell our young managers: 'Don't be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice'.

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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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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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More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.

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We want everybody to have the best facilities in which to work, but we do not believe in posh and impressive private offices.

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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 important thing in my view is not to pin the blame for a mistake on somebody, but rather to find out what caused the mistake.

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... without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period, it's difficult to see new projects to fruition.

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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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You can be totally rational with a machine. But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.

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I have always made it a point to know our employees, to visit every facility of our company, and to try to meet and know every single employee.

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Only with these three kinds of creativity - technology, product planning, and marketing - can the public receive the benefit of a new technology.

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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target. The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.

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