Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.
AKIO MORITAWhile the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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Of course we have to make a profit, but we have to make a profit over the long haul, not just the short term, and that means we must keep investing in research and development.
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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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In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues.
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We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business.
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The public does not know what is possible. We do.
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The remarkable thing about management is that a manager can go on for years making mistakes that nobody is aware of, which means that management can be a kind of a con job.
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Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period.
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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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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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Curiosity is the key to creativity.
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But make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.
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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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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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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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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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