A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
AKIO MORITAI 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.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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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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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.
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I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.
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I believe people work for satisfaction.
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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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But make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.
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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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Our plan is to lead the public with new products rather than ask them what kind of products they want.
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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Executives of the company must have the necessary qualities to direct the personnel by showing them the way to do things.
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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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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 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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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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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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Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period.
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If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell it.
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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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We want everybody to have the best facilities in which to work, but we do not believe in posh and impressive private offices.
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All you need is the best product in the world, the most efficient production in the world and global marketing.
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But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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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 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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(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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People need money, but they also want to be happy in their work and proud of it.
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Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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