Don’t do market research.
AKIO MORITAThe only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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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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Curiosity is the key to creativity.
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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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I consider it my job to nurture the creativity of the people I work with because at Sony we know that a terrific idea is more likely to happen in an open, free and trusting atmosphere than when everything is calculated.
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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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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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People need money, but they also want to be happy in their work and proud of it.
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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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From a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people’s inborn creativity.
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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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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period.
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We treat employees as a member of the family.
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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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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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