We treat employees as a member of the family.
AKIO MORITAA company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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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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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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Of course we have to make a profit, but we have to make a profit over the long haul, not just the short term, and that means we must keep investing in research and development.
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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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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart’s desire their technological capacity.
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I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.
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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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Curiosity is the key to creativity.
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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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My chief job is to constantly stir or rekindle the curiosity of people that gets driven out by bureaucracy and formal schooling systems.
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The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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Carefully watch how people live, get an intuitive sense as to what they might want and then go with it.
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The most important mission for a Japanese manager is to develop a healthy relationship with his employees.
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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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