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.
AKIO MORITAAnd then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.
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I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.
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And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.
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More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.
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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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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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We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business.
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The most important mission for a Japanese manager is to develop a healthy relationship with his employees.
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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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We treat employees as a member of the family.
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The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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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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In the long run, no matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty.
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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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I consider it my job to nurture the creativity of the people I work with because at Sony we know that a terrific idea is more likely to happen in an open, free and trusting atmosphere than when everything is calculated.
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My chief job is to constantly stir or rekindle the curiosity of people that gets driven out by bureaucracy and formal schooling systems.
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