Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
AKIO MORITAI knew we needed a weapon to break through to the US market, and it had to be something different, something that nobody else was making.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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Don’t do market research.
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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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Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.
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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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To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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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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(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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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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Carefully watch how people live, get an intuitive sense as to what they might want and then go with it.
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We treat employees as a member of the family.
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I believe people work for satisfaction.
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