I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.
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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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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Americans make money by playing `money games,’ namely mergers, acquisitions, by simply moving money back and forth … instead of creating and producing goods with some actual value.
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Of course we have to make a profit, but we have to make a profit over the long haul, not just the short term, and that means we must keep investing in research and development.
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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
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Curiosity is the key to creativity.
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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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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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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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I have always made it a point to know our employees, to visit every facility of our company, and to try to meet and know every single employee.
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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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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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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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The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.
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