Never break another man’s rice bowl.
AKIO MORITAOur plan is to lead the public with new products rather than ask them what kind of products they want.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.
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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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Every action analysed and every responsibility assigned by an organisation chart.
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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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To create a familylike feeling within the corporation, a feeling that employees and managers share the same fate.
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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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(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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And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.
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Of course we have to make a profit, but we have to make a profit over the long haul, not just the short term, and that means we must keep investing in research and development.
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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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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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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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To gain profit is important, but you must invest to build up assets that you can cash in in the future.
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I believe people work for satisfaction.
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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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