All you need is the best product in the world, the most efficient production in the world and global marketing.
AKIO MORITAWhile the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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If you trust your colleague today, he may be your competitor tomorrow, because people frequently move from one company to another.
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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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The remarkable thing about management is that a manager can go on for years making mistakes that nobody is aware of, which means that management can be a kind of a con job.
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We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business.
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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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To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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My chief job is to constantly stir or rekindle the curiosity of people that gets driven out by bureaucracy and formal schooling systems.
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If we face recession, we should not lay off employees; the company should sacrifice a profit. It’s management’s risk and management’s responsibility.
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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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If you go through life convinced that your way is always best, all the new ideas in the world will pass you by.
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(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.
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I believe people work for satisfaction.
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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period.
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