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.
AKIO MORITAYou can be totally rational with a machine.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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We don’t believe in market research for a new product unknown to the public. So we never do any.
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If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
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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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People need money, but they also want to be happy in their work and proud of it.
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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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In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues.
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Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.
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I consider it my job to nurture the creativity of the people I work with because at Sony we know that a terrific idea is more likely to happen in an open, free and trusting atmosphere than when everything is calculated.
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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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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
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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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Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.
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Don’t do market research.
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I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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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 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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Every action analysed and every responsibility assigned by an organisation chart.
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More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.
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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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But make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.
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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell it.
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Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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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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