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 MORITAAmerica looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
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Curiosity is the key to creativity.
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Don’t do market research.
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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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Americans make money by playing `money games,’ namely mergers, acquisitions, by simply moving money back and forth … instead of creating and producing goods with some actual value.
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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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We don’t believe in market research for a new product unknown to the public. So we never do any.
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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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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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(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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But make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.
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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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If we face recession, we should not lay off employees; the company should sacrifice a profit. It’s management’s risk and management’s responsibility.
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Never break another man’s rice bowl.
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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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