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.
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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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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Curiosity is the key to creativity.
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I often say to my assistants, “Never trust anybody,” but what I mean is that you should never trust someone else to do a job exactly the way you would want it done.
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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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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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To create a familylike feeling within the corporation, a feeling that employees and managers share the same fate.
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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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Never break another man’s rice bowl.
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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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To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
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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 trust your colleague today, he may be your competitor tomorrow, because people frequently move from one company to another.
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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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Our plan is to lead the public with new products rather than ask them what kind of products they want.
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Don’t do market research.
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