I believe one of the reasons we went through such a remarkable growth period was that we had this atmosphere of free discussion.
AKIO MORITAIf management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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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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Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.
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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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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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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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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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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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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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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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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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In the long run, no matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty.
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And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.
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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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From a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people’s inborn creativity.
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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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