America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
AKIO MORITAIn the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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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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The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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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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We want to keep the company healthy and its employees happy, and we want to keep them on the job and productive.
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We don’t believe in market research for a new product unknown to the public. So we never do any.
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart’s desire their technological capacity.
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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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If you trust your colleague today, he may be your competitor tomorrow, because people frequently move from one company to another.
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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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From a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people’s inborn creativity.
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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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In the long run, no matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty.
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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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