A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
AKIO MORITAThe 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.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
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I believe people work for satisfaction.
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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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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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Every action analysed and every responsibility assigned by an organisation chart.
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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 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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But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
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We treat employees as a member of the family.
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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 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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Never break another man’s rice bowl.
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