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.
AKIO MORITAI believe one of the reasons we went through such a remarkable growth period was that we had this atmosphere of free discussion.
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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If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell it.
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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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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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My concept is that anybody has creative ability, but very few people know how to use it.
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We treat employees as a member of the family.
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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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But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.
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(Japanese Government believes that if you have a big laboratory with all the latest equipment and good funding it will automatically lead to creativity. It doesn’t work that way.
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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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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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People need money, but they also want to be happy in their work and proud of it.
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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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