We want to keep the company healthy and its employees happy, and we want to keep them on the job and productive.
AKIO MORITADon’t do market research.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
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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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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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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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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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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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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues.
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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.
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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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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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Carefully watch how people live, get an intuitive sense as to what they might want and then go with it.
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