To gain profit is important, but you must invest to build up assets that you can cash in in the future.
AKIO MORITABut make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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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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I established the rule that once we hire an employee, his school records are a matter of the past and are no longer used to evaluate his work or decide on his promotion.
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We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business.
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There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.
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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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Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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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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Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period.
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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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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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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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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
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