I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.
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.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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The public does not know what is possible. We do.
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The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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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.
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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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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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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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To create a familylike feeling within the corporation, a feeling that employees and managers share the same fate.
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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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 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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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart’s desire their technological capacity.
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There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing.
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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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But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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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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