In the long run, no matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty.
AKIO MORITAAmericans 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.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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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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Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
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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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People need money, but they also want to be happy in their work and proud of it.
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(Japanese Government believes that if you have a big laboratory with all the latest equipment and good funding it will automatically lead to creativity. It doesn’t work that way.
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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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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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If you go through life convinced that your way is always best, all the new ideas in the world will pass you by.
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Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.
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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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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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If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
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Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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We treat employees as a member of the family.
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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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Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.
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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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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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It has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony – and in service.
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But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period.
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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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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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