But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
AKIO MORITAIf 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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If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
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We treat employees as a member of the family.
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To gain profit is important, but you must invest to build up assets that you can cash in in the future.
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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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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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Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
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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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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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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 we do our best and make efforts, a peaceful and great future will become ours without fail.
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I believe one of the reasons we went through such a remarkable growth period was that we had this atmosphere of free discussion.
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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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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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The remarkable thing about management is that a manager can go on for years making mistakes that nobody is aware of, which means that management can be a kind of a con job.
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