Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
AKIO MORITACuriosity is the key to creativity.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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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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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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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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Never break another man’s rice bowl.
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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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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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But make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.
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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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I believe one of the reasons we went through such a remarkable growth period was that we had this atmosphere of free discussion.
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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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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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Carefully watch how people live, get an intuitive sense as to what they might want and then go with 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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