We want everybody to have the best facilities in which to work, but we do not believe in posh and impressive private offices.
AKIO MORITACarefully watch how people live, get an intuitive sense as to what they might want and then go with it.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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I believe one of the reasons we went through such a remarkable growth period was that we had this atmosphere of free discussion.
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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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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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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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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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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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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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(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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But make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.
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We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business.
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To create a familylike feeling within the corporation, a feeling that employees and managers share the same fate.
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Every action analysed and every responsibility assigned by an organisation chart.
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Don’t do market research.
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Management of an industrial company must be giving targets to the engineers constantly; that may be the most important job management has in dealing with its engineers.
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