America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
AKIO MORITAThe 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.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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Don’t do market research.
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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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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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From a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people’s inborn creativity.
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In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues.
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We treat employees as a member of the family.
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Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
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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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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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Every action analysed and every responsibility assigned by an organisation chart.
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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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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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If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell it.
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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
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The public does not know what is possible. We do.
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