If you trust your colleague today, he may be your competitor tomorrow, because people frequently move from one company to another.
AKIO MORITAIt has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony – and in service.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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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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The public does not know what is possible. We do.
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In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues.
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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 people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.
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If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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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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But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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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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Advertising and promotion alone will not sustain a bad product or a product that is not right for the times.
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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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Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period.
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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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Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
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