I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.
AKIO MORITAWhile the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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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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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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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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The remarkable thing about management is that a manager can go on for years making mistakes that nobody is aware of, which means that management can be a kind of a con job.
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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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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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But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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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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In the long run, no matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty.
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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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The public does not know what is possible. We do.
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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 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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