I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.
AKIO MORITAEmployees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
More Akio Morita Quotes
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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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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell it.
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To gain profit is important, but you must invest to build up assets that you can cash in in the future.
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The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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If you go through life convinced that your way is always best, all the new ideas in the world will pass you by.
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I believe people work for satisfaction.
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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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To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
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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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But make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.
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It’s difficult to see new projects to fruition.
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If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
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If we do our best and make efforts, a peaceful and great future will become ours without fail.
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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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