I 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.
AKIO MORITAA company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell it.
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The most important mission for a Japanese manager is to develop a healthy relationship with his employees.
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There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing.
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My chief job is to constantly stir or rekindle the curiosity of people that gets driven out by bureaucracy and formal schooling systems.
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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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But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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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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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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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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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart’s desire their technological capacity.
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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
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Advertising and promotion alone will not sustain a bad product or a product that is not right for the times.
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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 best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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