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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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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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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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
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Never break another man’s rice bowl.
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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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I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.
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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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(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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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell it.
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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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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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In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues.
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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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