Carefully watch how people live, get an intuitive sense as to what they might want and then go with it.
AKIO MORITAIf you trust your colleague today, he may be your competitor tomorrow, because people frequently move from one company to another.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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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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Never break another man’s rice bowl.
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My chief job is to constantly stir or rekindle the curiosity of people that gets driven out by bureaucracy and formal schooling systems.
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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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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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Advertising and promotion alone will not sustain a bad product or a product that is not right for the times.
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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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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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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the 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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In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues.
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The most important mission for a Japanese manager is to develop a healthy relationship with his employees.
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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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