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 MORITAThe most important mission for a Japanese manager is to develop a healthy relationship with his employees.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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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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The company must not throw money away on huge bonuses for executives or other frivolities but must share its fate with the workers.
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It’s difficult to see new projects to fruition.
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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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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
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There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.
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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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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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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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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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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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I believe one of the reasons we went through such a remarkable growth period was that we had this atmosphere of free discussion.
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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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If you go through life convinced that your way is always best, all the new ideas in the world will pass you by.
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But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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