America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
AKIO MORITAAdvertising and promotion alone will not sustain a bad product or a product that is not right for the times.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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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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In the long run, no matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty.
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The most important mission for a Japanese manager is to develop a healthy relationship with his employees.
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But make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.
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Executives of the company must have the necessary qualities to direct the personnel by showing them the way to do things.
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Never break another man’s rice bowl.
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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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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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Every action analysed and every responsibility assigned by an organisation chart.
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I have always made it a point to know our employees, to visit every facility of our company, and to try to meet and know every single employee.
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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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Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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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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(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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I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.
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We treat employees as a member of the family.
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It’s difficult to see new projects to fruition.
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If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
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I believe people work for satisfaction.
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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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To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
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Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.
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Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
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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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Don’t do market research.
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To create a familylike feeling within the corporation, a feeling that employees and managers share the same fate.
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