The company must not throw money away on huge bonuses for executives or other frivolities but must share its fate with the workers.
AKIO MORITAAmenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing.
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I believe it is a big mistake to think that money is the only way to compensate a person for his work.
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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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I have always made it a point to know our employees, to visit every facility of our company, and to try to meet and know every single employee.
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From a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people’s inborn creativity.
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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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Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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Americans make money by playing `money games,’ namely mergers, acquisitions, by simply moving money back and forth … instead of creating and producing goods with some actual value.
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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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We treat employees as a member of the family.
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I believe people work for satisfaction.
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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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To create a familylike feeling within the corporation, a feeling that employees and managers share the same fate.
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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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