While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
AKIO MORITAAn enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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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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Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period.
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But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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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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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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I often say to my assistants, “Never trust anybody,” but what I mean is that you should never trust someone else to do a job exactly the way you would want it done.
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I have always made it a point to know our employees, to visit every facility of our company, and to try to meet and know every single employee.
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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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Never break another man’s rice bowl.
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The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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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 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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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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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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