If you go through life convinced that your way is always best, all the new ideas in the world will pass you by.
AKIO MORITACarefully watch how people live, get an intuitive sense as to what they might want and then go with it.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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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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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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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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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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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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Of course we have to make a profit, but we have to make a profit over the long haul, not just the short term, and that means we must keep investing in research and development.
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Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
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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 feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.
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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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I often say to my assistants, “Never trust anybody,” but what I mean is that you should never trust someone else to do a job exactly the way you would want it done.
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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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It’s difficult to see new projects to fruition.
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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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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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