Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
AKIO MORITAI established the rule that once we hire an employee, his school records are a matter of the past and are no longer used to evaluate his work or decide on his promotion.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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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 best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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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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If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell it.
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We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business.
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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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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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Management of an industrial company must be giving targets to the engineers constantly; that may be the most important job management has in dealing with its engineers.
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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
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Don’t do market research.
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Americans make money by playing `money games,’ namely mergers, acquisitions, by simply moving money back and forth … instead of creating and producing goods with some actual value.
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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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The public does not know what is possible. We do.
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Our plan is to lead the public with new products rather than ask them what kind of products they want.
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People need money, but they also want to be happy in their work and proud of it.
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