I believe people work for satisfaction.
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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If we do our best and make efforts, a peaceful and great future will become ours without fail.
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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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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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We want to keep the company healthy and its employees happy, and we want to keep them on the job and productive.
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If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
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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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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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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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Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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Curiosity is the key to creativity.
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Carefully watch how people live, get an intuitive sense as to what they might want and then go with it.
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The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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The important thing in my view is not to pin the blame for a mistake on somebody, but rather to find out what caused the mistake.
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If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell 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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