We want to keep the company healthy and its employees happy, and we want to keep them on the job and productive.
AKIO MORITAIt’s difficult to see new projects to fruition.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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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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And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.
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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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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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The company must not throw money away on huge bonuses for executives or other frivolities but must share its fate with the workers.
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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
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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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Don’t do market research.
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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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But make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.
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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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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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