I believe it is a big mistake to think that money is the only way to compensate a person for his work.
AKIO MORITAA company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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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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If we do our best and make efforts, a peaceful and great future will become ours without fail.
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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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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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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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In the long run, no matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty.
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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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From a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people’s inborn creativity.
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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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I 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.
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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 best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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We want to keep the company healthy and its employees happy, and we want to keep them on the job and productive.
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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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My concept is that anybody has creative ability, but very few people know how to use it.
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