People need money, but they also want to be happy in their work and proud of it.
AKIO MORITAAmerica looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing.
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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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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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And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.
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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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The company must not throw money away on huge bonuses for executives or other frivolities but must share its fate with the workers.
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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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To create a familylike feeling within the corporation, a feeling that employees and managers share the same fate.
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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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Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period.
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To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
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Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
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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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The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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