I believe one of the reasons we went through such a remarkable growth period was that we had this atmosphere of free discussion.
AKIO MORITAThe only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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If you go through life convinced that your way is always best, all the new ideas in the world will pass you by.
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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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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues.
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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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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 all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business.
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Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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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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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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Don’t do market research.
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There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best 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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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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I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.
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We want everybody to have the best facilities in which to work, but we do not believe in posh and impressive private offices.
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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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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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Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.
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But make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.
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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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It has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony – and in service.
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If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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