Curiosity is the key to creativity.
AKIO MORITAAdvertising and promotion alone will not sustain a bad product or a product that is not right for the times.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
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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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But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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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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Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.
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We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business.
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It has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony – and in service.
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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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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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I believe it is a big mistake to think that money is the only way to compensate a person for his work.
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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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And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.
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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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