America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
AKIO MORITABut make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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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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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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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues.
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The public does not know what is possible. We do.
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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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Management of an industrial company must be giving targets to the engineers constantly; that may be the most important job management has in dealing with its engineers.
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People need money, but they also want to be happy in their work and proud of it.
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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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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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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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To create a familylike feeling within the corporation, a feeling that employees and managers share the same fate.
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The most important mission for a Japanese manager is to develop a healthy relationship with his employees.
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Every action analysed and every responsibility assigned by an organisation chart.
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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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