In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues.
AKIO MORITAI 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.
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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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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Don’t do market research.
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Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
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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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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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We want to keep the company healthy and its employees happy, and we want to keep them on the job and productive.
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But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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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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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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Every action analysed and every responsibility assigned by an organisation chart.
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Curiosity is the key to creativity.
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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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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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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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