To gain profit is important, but you must invest to build up assets that you can cash in in the future.
AKIO MORITAAmericans 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.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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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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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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In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues.
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Executives of the company must have the necessary qualities to direct the personnel by showing them the way to do things.
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From a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people’s inborn creativity.
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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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Never break another man’s rice bowl.
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It’s difficult to see new projects to fruition.
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Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period.
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The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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We treat employees as a member of the family.
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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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Our plan is to lead the public with new products rather than ask them what kind of products they want.
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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