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 MORITAManagement 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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And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.
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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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(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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Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.
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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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The public does not know what is possible. We do.
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To gain profit is important, but you must invest to build up assets that you can cash in in the future.
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If we do our best and make efforts, a peaceful and great future will become ours without fail.
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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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From a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people’s inborn creativity.
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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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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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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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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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I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.
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