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.
AKIO MORITAIn the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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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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My chief job is to constantly stir or rekindle the curiosity of people that gets driven out by bureaucracy and formal schooling systems.
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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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If you go through life convinced that your way is always best, all the new ideas in the world will pass you by.
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Don’t do market research.
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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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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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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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We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business.
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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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Our plan is to lead the public with new products rather than ask them what kind of products they want.
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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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Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.
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But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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I believe it is a big mistake to think that money is the only way to compensate a person for his work.
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