America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
AKIO MORITAAn enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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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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Every action analysed and every responsibility assigned by an organisation chart.
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But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
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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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Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing.
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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.
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If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell it.
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If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
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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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