But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
AKIO MORITAAmerica looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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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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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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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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My concept is that anybody has creative ability, but very few people know how to use it.
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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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More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.
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Don’t do market research.
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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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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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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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