If you trust your colleague today, he may be your competitor tomorrow, because people frequently move from one company to another.
AKIO MORITAI believe one of the reasons we went through such a remarkable growth period was that we had this atmosphere of free discussion.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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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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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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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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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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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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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 management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
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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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The “patron saint” of Japanese quality control, ironically, is an American named W. Edwards Deming, who was virtually unknown in his own country until his ideas of quality control began to make such a big impact on Japanese companies.
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The important thing in my view is not to pin the blame for a mistake on somebody, but rather to find out what caused the mistake.
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To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
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We don’t believe in market research for a new product unknown to the public. So we never do any.
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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 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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