To gain profit is important, but you must invest to build up assets that you can cash in in the future.
AKIO MORITAIf management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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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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People need money, but they also want to be happy in their work and proud of it.
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Never break another man’s rice bowl.
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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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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.
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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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All you need is the best product in the world, the most efficient production in the world and global marketing.
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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 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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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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I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.
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Every action analysed and every responsibility assigned by an organisation chart.
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We don’t believe in market research for a new product unknown to the public. So we never do any.
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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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But make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.
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