The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
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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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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
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And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.
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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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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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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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Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period.
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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 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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Never break another man’s rice bowl.
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Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell 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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