The public does not know what is possible. We do.
AKIO MORITAThe only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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I believe people work for satisfaction.
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There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.
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Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
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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.
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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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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
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People need money, but they also want to be happy in their work and proud of it.
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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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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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Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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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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There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing.
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I established the rule that once we hire an employee, his school records are a matter of the past and are no longer used to evaluate his work or decide on his promotion.
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Americans make money by playing `money games,’ namely mergers, acquisitions, by simply moving money back and forth … instead of creating and producing goods with some actual value.
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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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