If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
AKIO MORITAThere is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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If you go through life convinced that your way is always best, all the new ideas in the world will pass you by.
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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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There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing.
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The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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But make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.
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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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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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Every action analysed and every responsibility assigned by an organisation chart.
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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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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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(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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If you trust your colleague today, he may be your competitor tomorrow, because people frequently move from one company to another.
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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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I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.
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To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
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