The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
AKIO MORITAIn the long run, no matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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Don’t do market research.
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Every action analysed and every responsibility assigned by an organisation chart.
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The “patron saint” of Japanese quality control, ironically, is an American named W. Edwards Deming, who was virtually unknown in his own country until his ideas of quality control began to make such a big impact on Japanese companies.
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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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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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We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business.
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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period.
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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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Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.
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To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
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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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There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing.
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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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