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.
AKIO MORITAA company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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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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I believe one of the reasons we went through such a remarkable growth period was that we had this atmosphere of free discussion.
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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
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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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And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.
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More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.
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It has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony – and in service.
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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.
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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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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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Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.
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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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The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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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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