To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
AKIO MORITAMy solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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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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We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business.
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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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If we face recession, we should not lay off employees; the company should sacrifice a profit. It’s management’s risk and management’s responsibility.
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Advertising and promotion alone will not sustain a bad product or a product that is not right for the times.
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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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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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The most important mission for a Japanese manager is to develop a healthy relationship with his employees.
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Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.
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It has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony – and in service.
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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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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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If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
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Curiosity is the key to creativity.
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