If we do our best and make efforts, a peaceful and great future will become ours without fail.
AKIO MORITAAmerica looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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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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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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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Curiosity is the key to creativity.
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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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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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We don’t believe in market research for a new product unknown to the public. So we never do any.
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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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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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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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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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