The remarkable thing about management is that a manager can go on for years making mistakes that nobody is aware of, which means that management can be a kind of a con job.
AKIO MORITAAn enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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It’s difficult to see new projects to fruition.
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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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We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business.
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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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Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.
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To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
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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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And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.
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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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Our plan is to lead the public with new products rather than ask them what kind of products they want.
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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We want to keep the company healthy and its employees happy, and we want to keep them on the job and productive.
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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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Carefully watch how people live, get an intuitive sense as to what they might want and then go with it.
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