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

"...I established the rule that once we hire an employee, his school records are a matter of the past and are no longe…"

"The investor and the employee are in the same position, but sometimes the employee is more important, because he will…"

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

"The most important mission for a Japanese manager is to develop a healthy relationship with his employees, to create …"

"The effect of three things - the new laws, the revision of the tax system, and the elimination of the zaibatsu conglo…"

"'There is a major difference between you and me,' I told him. 'Yes, I am rich. But you are wealthy. And that is why y…"

"The concept of lifetime employment arose when Japanese managers and employees both realized that they had much in com…"

"What we in industry learned in dealing with people is that people do not work just for money and that if you are tryi…"

"I believe one of the reasons we went through such a remarkable growth period was that we had this atmosphere of free …"