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.
AKIO MORITAThe 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.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business.
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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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Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.
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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 people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.
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I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.
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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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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 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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Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period.
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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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We don’t believe in market research for a new product unknown to the public. So we never do any.
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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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Don’t do market research.
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