We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business.
AKIO MORITAWhile the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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The “patron saint” of Japanese quality control, ironically, is an American named W. Edwards Deming, who was virtually unknown in his own country until his ideas of quality control began to make such a big impact on Japanese companies.
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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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To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
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My chief job is to constantly stir or rekindle the curiosity of people that gets driven out by bureaucracy and formal schooling systems.
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If we do our best and make efforts, a peaceful and great future will become ours without fail.
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The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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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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We don’t believe in market research for a new product unknown to the public. So we never do any.
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I consider it my job to nurture the creativity of the people I work with because at Sony we know that a terrific idea is more likely to happen in an open, free and trusting atmosphere than when everything is calculated.
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I believe it is a big mistake to think that money is the only way to compensate a person for his work.
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There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing.
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But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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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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