(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.
AKIO MORITAIt’s difficult to see new projects to fruition.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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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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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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Advertising and promotion alone will not sustain a bad product or a product that is not right for the times.
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To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
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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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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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Our plan is to lead the public with new products rather than ask them what kind of products they want.
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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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Never break another man’s rice bowl.
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Americans 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.
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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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I consider it my job to nurture the creativity of the people I work with because at Sony we know that a terrific idea is more likely to happen in an open, free and trusting atmosphere than when everything is calculated.
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If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell it.
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Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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