In the long run, no matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty.
AKIO MORITAThe company must not throw money away on huge bonuses for executives or other frivolities but must share its fate with the workers.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
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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 don’t believe in market research for a new product unknown to the public. So we never do any.
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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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We treat employees as a member of the family.
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I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.
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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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