And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.
AKIO MORITAIt has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony – and in service.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
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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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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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I believe it is a big mistake to think that money is the only way to compensate a person for his work.
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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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Americans make money by playing `money games,’ namely mergers, acquisitions, by simply moving money back and forth … instead of creating and producing goods with some actual value.
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The company must not throw money away on huge bonuses for executives or other frivolities but must share its fate with the workers.
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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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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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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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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Never break another man’s rice bowl.
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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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My concept is that anybody has creative ability, but very few people know how to use it.
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