But make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.
AKIO MORITAWhile the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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Never break another man’s rice bowl.
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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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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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We don’t believe in market research for a new product unknown to the public. So we never do any.
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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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All you need is the best product in the world, the most efficient production in the world and global marketing.
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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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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business.
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Management of an industrial company must be giving targets to the engineers constantly; that may be the most important job management has in dealing with its engineers.
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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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There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing.
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The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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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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Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.
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