America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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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Executives of the company must have the necessary qualities to direct the personnel by showing them the way to do things.
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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Carefully watch how people live, get an intuitive sense as to what they might want and then go with it.
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The important thing in my view is not to pin the blame for a mistake on somebody, but rather to find out what caused the mistake.
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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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Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.
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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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Our plan is to lead the public with new products rather than ask them what kind of products they want.
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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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I believe people work for satisfaction.
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period.
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I believe one of the reasons we went through such a remarkable growth period was that we had this atmosphere of free discussion.
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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
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