I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.
AKIO MORITAWe don’t believe in market research for a new product unknown to the public. So we never do any.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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Never break another man’s rice bowl.
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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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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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My concept is that anybody has creative ability, but very few people know how to use it.
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I 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.
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People need money, but they also want to be happy in their work and proud of it.
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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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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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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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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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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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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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Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
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