I often say to my assistants, “Never trust anybody,” but what I mean is that you should never trust someone else to do a job exactly the way you would want it done.
AKIO MORITAI established the rule that once we hire an employee, his school records are a matter of the past and are no longer used to evaluate his work or decide on his promotion.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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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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We don’t believe in market research for a new product unknown to the public. So we never do any.
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Curiosity is the key to creativity.
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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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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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In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues.
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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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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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It has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony – and in service.
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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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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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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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We treat employees as a member of the family.
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