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.
AKIO MORITABut if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell it.
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Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
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To create a familylike feeling within the corporation, a feeling that employees and managers share the same fate.
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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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My concept is that anybody has creative ability, but very few people know how to use it.
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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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There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing.
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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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If we do our best and make efforts, a peaceful and great future will become ours without fail.
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In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues.
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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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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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