The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
AKIO MORITAOf 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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Executives of the company must have the necessary qualities to direct the personnel by showing them the way to do things.
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If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell it.
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We treat employees as a member of the family.
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To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
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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 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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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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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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And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.
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My concept is that anybody has creative ability, but very few people know how to use it.
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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
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Never break another man’s rice bowl.
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The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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Curiosity is the key to creativity.
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