In the long run, no matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty.
AKIO MORITAWe don’t believe in market research for a new product unknown to the public. So we never do any.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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All you need is the best product in the world, the most efficient production in the world and global marketing.
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Carefully watch how people live, get an intuitive sense as to what they might want and then go with it.
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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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There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing.
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Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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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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The public does not know what is possible. We do.
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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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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I often say to my assistants, “Never trust anybody,” but what I mean is that you should never trust someone else to do a job exactly the way you would want it done.
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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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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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I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.
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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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