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.
AKIO MORITAWe want everybody to have the best facilities in which to work, but we do not believe in posh and impressive private offices.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
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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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And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.
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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
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It’s difficult to see new projects to fruition.
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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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The important thing in my view is not to pin the blame for a mistake on somebody, but rather to find out what caused the mistake.
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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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We want to keep the company healthy and its employees happy, and we want to keep them on the job and productive.
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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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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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Never break another man’s rice bowl.
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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.
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