Americans make money by playing `money games,’ namely mergers, acquisitions, by simply moving money back and forth … instead of creating and producing goods with some actual value.
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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From a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people’s inborn creativity.
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If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell it.
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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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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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If we do our best and make efforts, a peaceful and great future will become ours without fail.
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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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Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period.
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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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In the long run, no matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty.
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The most important mission for a Japanese manager is to develop a healthy relationship with his employees.
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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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I established the rule that once we hire an employee, his school records are a matter of the past and are no longer used to evaluate his work or decide on his promotion.
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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