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 believe it is a big mistake to think that money is the only way to compensate a person for his work.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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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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From a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people’s inborn creativity.
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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart’s desire their technological capacity.
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Curiosity is the key to creativity.
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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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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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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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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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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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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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In the long run, no matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty.
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The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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I 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.
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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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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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Don’t do market research.
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I believe one of the reasons we went through such a remarkable growth period was that we had this atmosphere of free discussion.
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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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More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.
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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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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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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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I often say to my assistants, “Never trust anybody,” but what I mean is that you should never trust someone else to do a job exactly the way you would want it done.
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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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If we do our best and make efforts, a peaceful and great future will become ours without fail.
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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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