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 MORITAWe want everybody to have the best facilities in which to work, but we do not believe in posh and impressive private offices.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
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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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We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business.
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There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing.
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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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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
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To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
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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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The important thing in my view is not to pin the blame for a mistake on somebody, but rather to find out what caused the mistake.
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People need money, but they also want to be happy in their work and proud of it.
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The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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