More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.
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More Akio Morita Quotes
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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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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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The public does not know what is possible. We do.
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If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
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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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If we face recession, we should not lay off employees; the company should sacrifice a profit. It’s management’s risk and management’s responsibility.
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Once you have a staff of prepared, intelligent, and energetic people, the next step is to motivate them to be creative.
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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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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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But make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.
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Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period.
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All you need is the best product in the world, the most efficient production in the world and global marketing.
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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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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
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