If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell it.
AKIO MORITAMy chief job is to constantly stir or rekindle the curiosity of people that gets driven out by bureaucracy and formal schooling systems.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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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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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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Never break another man’s rice bowl.
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If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
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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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From a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people’s inborn creativity.
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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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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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Curiosity is the key to creativity.
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But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing.
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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 public does not know what is possible. We do.
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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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The company must not throw money away on huge bonuses for executives or other frivolities but must share its fate with the workers.
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