When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
AKIO MORITAIf you trust your colleague today, he may be your competitor tomorrow, because people frequently move from one company to another.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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In the long run, no matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty.
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I have always made it a point to know our employees, to visit every facility of our company, and to try to meet and know every single employee.
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Management of an industrial company must be giving targets to the engineers constantly; that may be the most important job management has in dealing with its engineers.
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I knew we needed a weapon to break through to the US market, and it had to be something different, something that nobody else was making.
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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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If we face recession, we should not lay off employees; the company should sacrifice a profit. It’s management’s risk and management’s responsibility.
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I believe one of the reasons we went through such a remarkable growth period was that we had this atmosphere of free discussion.
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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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I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.
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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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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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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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(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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The public does not know what is possible. We do.
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