Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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More Akio Morita Quotes
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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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Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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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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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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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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To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
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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 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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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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From a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people’s inborn creativity.
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Executives of the company must have the necessary qualities to direct the personnel by showing them the way to do things.
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All you need is the best product in the world, the most efficient production in the world and global marketing.
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If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell it.
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The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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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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