Carefully watch how people live, get an intuitive sense as to what they might want and then go with it.
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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People need money, but they also want to be happy in their work and proud of it.
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Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.
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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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If we do our best and make efforts, a peaceful and great future will become ours without fail.
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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.
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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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We want everybody to have the best facilities in which to work, but we do not believe in posh and impressive private offices.
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If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
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I 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.
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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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The “patron saint” of Japanese quality control, ironically, is an American named W. Edwards Deming, who was virtually unknown in his own country until his ideas of quality control began to make such a big impact on Japanese companies.
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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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All you need is the best product in the world, the most efficient production in the world and global marketing.
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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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