Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.
AKIO MORITAMy solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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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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If we do our best and make efforts, a peaceful and great future will become ours without fail.
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We don’t believe in market research for a new product unknown to the public. So we never do any.
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Never break another man’s rice bowl.
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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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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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To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
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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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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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I believe people work for satisfaction.
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It’s difficult to see new projects to fruition.
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Curiosity is the key to creativity.
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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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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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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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