The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
AKIO MORITAWithout an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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If you go through life convinced that your way is always best, all the new ideas in the world will pass you by.
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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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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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Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
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To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
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The company must not throw money away on huge bonuses for executives or other frivolities but must share its fate with the workers.
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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(Japanese Government believes that if you have a big laboratory with all the latest equipment and good funding it will automatically lead to creativity. It doesn’t work that way.
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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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The public does not know what is possible. We do.
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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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In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues.
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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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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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