If you trust your colleague today, he may be your competitor tomorrow, because people frequently move from one company to another.
AKIO MORITAMy chief job is to constantly stir or rekindle the curiosity of people that gets driven out by bureaucracy and formal schooling systems.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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My concept is that anybody has creative ability, but very few people know how to use it.
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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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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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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 treat employees as a member of the family.
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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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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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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.
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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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It’s difficult to see new projects to fruition.
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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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Never break another man’s rice bowl.
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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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If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
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To create a familylike feeling within the corporation, a feeling that employees and managers share the same fate.
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