If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell it.
AKIO MORITAAnd then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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From a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people’s inborn creativity.
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To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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Every action analysed and every responsibility assigned by an organisation chart.
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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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People need money, but they also want to be happy in their work and proud of it.
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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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The public does not know what is possible. We do.
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If we do our best and make efforts, a peaceful and great future will become ours without fail.
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It has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony – and in service.
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To gain profit is important, but you must invest to build up assets that you can cash in in the future.
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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 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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I believe one of the reasons we went through such a remarkable growth period was that we had this atmosphere of free discussion.
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Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period.
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