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.
AKIO MORITAI 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.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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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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Once you have a staff of prepared, intelligent, and energetic people, the next step is to motivate them to be creative.
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I knew we needed a weapon to break through to the US market, and it had to be something different, something that nobody else was making.
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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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If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
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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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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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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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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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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 “patron saint” of Japanese quality control, ironically, is an American named W. Edwards Deming, who was virtually unknown in his own country until his ideas of quality control began to make such a big impact on Japanese companies.
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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
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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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Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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