In the long run, no matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty.
AKIO MORITAIf you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell it.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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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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Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.
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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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Our plan is to lead the public with new products rather than ask them what kind of products they want.
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We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business.
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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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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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There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.
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If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell it.
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In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues.
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Every action analysed and every responsibility assigned by an organisation chart.
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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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Of course we have to make a profit, but we have to make a profit over the long haul, not just the short term, and that means we must keep investing in research and development.
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The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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