To gain profit is important, but you must invest to build up assets that you can cash in in the future.
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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Carefully watch how people live, get an intuitive sense as to what they might want and then go with it.
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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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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.
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To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
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Our plan is to lead the public with new products rather than ask them what kind of products they want.
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In the long run, no matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty.
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My concept is that anybody has creative ability, but very few people know how to use it.
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The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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I believe people work for satisfaction.
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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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Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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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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If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell it.
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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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