Don’t do market research.
AKIO MORITAAll you need is the best product in the world, the most efficient production in the world and global marketing.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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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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Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.
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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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More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.
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Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period.
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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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If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
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I believe it is a big mistake to think that money is the only way to compensate a person for his work.
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We want everybody to have the best facilities in which to work, but we do not believe in posh and impressive private offices.
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If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell it.
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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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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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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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