The company must not throw money away on huge bonuses for executives or other frivolities but must share its fate with the workers.
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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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing.
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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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If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell it.
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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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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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The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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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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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 we do our best and make efforts, a peaceful and great future will become ours without fail.
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I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.
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Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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Once you have a staff of prepared, intelligent, and energetic people, the next step is to motivate them to be creative.
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Our plan is to lead the public with new products rather than ask them what kind of products they want.
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