Carefully watch how people live, get an intuitive sense as to what they might want and then go with it.
AKIO MORITAMore people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period.
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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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Once you have a staff of prepared, intelligent, and energetic people, the next step is to motivate them to be creative.
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All you need is the best product in the world, the most efficient production in the world and global marketing.
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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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From a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people’s inborn creativity.
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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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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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We don’t believe in market research for a new product unknown to the public. So we never do any.
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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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I established the rule that once we hire an employee, his school records are a matter of the past and are no longer used to evaluate his work or decide on his promotion.
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Every action analysed and every responsibility assigned by an organisation chart.
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If we face recession, we should not lay off employees; the company should sacrifice a profit. It’s management’s risk and management’s responsibility.
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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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