Our plan is to lead the public with new products rather than ask them what kind of products they want.
AKIO MORITAIt has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony – and in service.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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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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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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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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All you need is the best product in the world, the most efficient production in the world and global marketing.
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If you go through life convinced that your way is always best, all the new ideas in the world will pass you by.
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To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
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We treat employees as a member of the family.
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Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period.
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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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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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There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing.
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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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In the long run, no matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty.
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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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