But make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.
AKIO MORITAI 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.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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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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I believe people work for satisfaction.
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If we face recession, we should not lay off employees; the company should sacrifice a profit. It’s management’s risk and management’s responsibility.
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Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
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The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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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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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period.
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If we do our best and make efforts, a peaceful and great future will become ours without fail.
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If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
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The public does not know what is possible. We do.
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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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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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