I believe it is a big mistake to think that money is the only way to compensate a person for his work.
AKIO MORITAExecutives of the company must have the necessary qualities to direct the personnel by showing them the way to do things.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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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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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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If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
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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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To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
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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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And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.
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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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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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We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business.
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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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The most important mission for a Japanese manager is to develop a healthy relationship with his employees.
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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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If we do our best and make efforts, a peaceful and great future will become ours without fail.
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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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