There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing.
AKIO MORITAAmenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
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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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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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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
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Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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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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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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The company must not throw money away on huge bonuses for executives or other frivolities but must share its fate with the workers.
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We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business.
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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.
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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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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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Once you have a staff of prepared, intelligent, and energetic people, the next step is to motivate them to be creative.
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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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