Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
AKIO MORITAAnd then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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People need money, but they also want to be happy in their work and proud of it.
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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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Advertising and promotion alone will not sustain a bad product or a product that is not right for the times.
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Once you have a staff of prepared, intelligent, and energetic people, the next step is to motivate them to be creative.
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It’s difficult to see new projects to fruition.
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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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In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues.
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But make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.
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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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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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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.
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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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