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.
AKIO MORITAI believe it is a big mistake to think that money is the only way to compensate a person for his work.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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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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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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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 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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Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.
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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 United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues.
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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
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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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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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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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If you trust your colleague today, he may be your competitor tomorrow, because people frequently move from one company to another.
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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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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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There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.
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