There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.
AKIO MORITAI feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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The public does not know what is possible. We do.
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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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More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.
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If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
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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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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
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All you need is the best product in the world, the most efficient production in the world and global marketing.
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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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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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We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business.
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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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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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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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