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.
AKIO MORITAThe company must not throw money away on huge bonuses for executives or other frivolities but must share its fate with the workers.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.
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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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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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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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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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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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Don’t do market research.
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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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The remarkable thing about management is that a manager can go on for years making mistakes that nobody is aware of, which means that management can be a kind of a con job.
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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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Advertising and promotion alone will not sustain a bad product or a product that is not right for the times.
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We treat employees as a member of the family.
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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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People need money, but they also want to be happy in their work and proud of it.
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