Don’t do market research.
AKIO MORITAI knew we needed a weapon to break through to the US market, and it had to be something different, something that nobody else was making.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell it.
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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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From a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people’s inborn creativity.
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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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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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Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
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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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I have always made it a point to know our employees, to visit every facility of our company, and to try to meet and know every single employee.
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Never break another man’s rice bowl.
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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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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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Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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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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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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