If we do our best and make efforts, a peaceful and great future will become ours without fail.
AKIO MORITAIf you go through life convinced that your way is always best, all the new ideas in the world will pass you by.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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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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My concept is that anybody has creative ability, but very few people know how to use it.
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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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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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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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Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period.
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If you trust your colleague today, he may be your competitor tomorrow, because people frequently move from one company to another.
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But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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Curiosity is the key to creativity.
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If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell it.
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Carefully watch how people live, get an intuitive sense as to what they might want and then go with it.
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