Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
AKIO MORITATo gain profit is important, but you must invest to build up assets that you can cash in in the future.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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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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The most important mission for a Japanese manager is to develop a healthy relationship with his employees.
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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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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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The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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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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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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If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
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Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period.
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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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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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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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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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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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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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To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
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More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.
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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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Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.
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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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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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Don’t do market research.
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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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Advertising and promotion alone will not sustain a bad product or a product that is not right for the times.
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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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