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.
AKIO MORITAJapanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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I consider it my job to nurture the creativity of the people I work with because at Sony we know that a terrific idea is more likely to happen in an open, free and trusting atmosphere than when everything is calculated.
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But make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.
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Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period.
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I believe it is a big mistake to think that money is the only way to compensate a person for his work.
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There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing.
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But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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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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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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Of course we have to make a profit, but we have to make a profit over the long haul, not just the short term, and that means we must keep investing in research and development.
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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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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.
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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business.
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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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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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