More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.
AKIO MORITABut make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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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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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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We treat employees as a member of the family.
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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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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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If we do our best and make efforts, a peaceful and great future will become ours without fail.
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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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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.
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Of 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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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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I believe people work for satisfaction.
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To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
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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 all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business.
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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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