We want everybody to have the best facilities in which to work, but we do not believe in posh and impressive private offices.
AKIO MORITABut if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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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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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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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
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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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From a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people’s inborn creativity.
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The public does not know what is possible. We do.
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Curiosity is the key to creativity.
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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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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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(Japanese Government believes that if you have a big laboratory with all the latest equipment and good funding it will automatically lead to creativity. It doesn’t work that way.
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Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.
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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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Never break another man’s rice bowl.
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If we do our best and make efforts, a peaceful and great future will become ours without fail.
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