There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.
AKIO MORITAOnce you have a staff of prepared, intelligent, and energetic people, the next step is to motivate them to be creative.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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I 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.
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Executives of the company must have the necessary qualities to direct the personnel by showing them the way to do things.
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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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If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell it.
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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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I believe people work for satisfaction.
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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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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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Of course we have to make a profit, but we have to make a profit over the long haul, not just the short term, and that means we must keep investing in research and development.
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To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
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The important thing in my view is not to pin the blame for a mistake on somebody, but rather to find out what caused the mistake.
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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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We don’t believe in market research for a new product unknown to the public. So we never do any.
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Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
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We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business.
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