We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business.
AKIO MORITAOur plan is to lead the public with new products rather than ask them what kind of products they want.
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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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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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We treat employees as a member of the family.
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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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Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.
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I often say to my assistants, “Never trust anybody,” but what I mean is that you should never trust someone else to do a job exactly the way you would want it done.
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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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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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If we do our best and make efforts, a peaceful and great future will become ours without fail.
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The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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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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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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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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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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