Never break another man’s rice bowl.
AKIO MORITAI feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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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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Our plan is to lead the public with new products rather than ask them what kind of products they want.
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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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If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell it.
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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It’s difficult to see new projects to fruition.
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We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business.
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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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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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Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.
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Of course we have to make a profit, but we have to make a profit over the long haul, not just the short term, and that means we must keep investing in research and development.
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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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