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.
AKIO MORITAIf 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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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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I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.
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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period.
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Never break another man’s rice bowl.
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In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues.
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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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Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.
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I consider it my job to nurture the creativity of the people I work with because at Sony we know that a terrific idea is more likely to happen in an open, free and trusting atmosphere than when everything is calculated.
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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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There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.
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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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The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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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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If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell it.
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(Japanese Government believes that if you have a big laboratory with all the latest equipment and good funding it will automatically lead to creativity. It doesn’t work that way.
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If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
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But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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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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But make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.
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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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Executives of the company must have the necessary qualities to direct the personnel by showing them the way to do things.
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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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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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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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