In the long run, no matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty.
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 believe people work for satisfaction.
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From a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people’s inborn creativity.
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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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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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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 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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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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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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People need money, but they also want to be happy in their work and proud of it.
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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 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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If we do our best and make efforts, a peaceful and great future will become ours without fail.
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We treat employees as a member of the family.
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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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