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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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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Carefully watch how people live, get an intuitive sense as to what they might want and then go with it.
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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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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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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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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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If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell it.
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But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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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 feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.
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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart’s desire their technological capacity.
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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
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