The company must not throw money away on huge bonuses for executives or other frivolities but must share its fate with the workers.
AKIO MORITA(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.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues.
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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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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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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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I have always made it a point to know our employees, to visit every facility of our company, and to try to meet and know every single employee.
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Once you have a staff of prepared, intelligent, and energetic people, the next step is to motivate them to be creative.
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Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
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Management of an industrial company must be giving targets to the engineers constantly; that may be the most important job management has in dealing with its engineers.
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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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We don’t believe in market research for a new product unknown to the public. So we never do any.
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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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The public does not know what is possible. We do.
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I knew we needed a weapon to break through to the US market, and it had to be something different, something that nobody else was making.
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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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Advertising and promotion alone will not sustain a bad product or a product that is not right for the times.
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