The company must not throw money away on huge bonuses for executives or other frivolities but must share its fate with the workers.
AKIO MORITAMy chief job is to constantly stir or rekindle the curiosity of people that gets driven out by bureaucracy and formal schooling systems.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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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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My concept is that anybody has creative ability, but very few people know how to use it.
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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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Once you have a staff of prepared, intelligent, and energetic people, the next step is to motivate them to be creative.
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The “patron saint” of Japanese quality control, ironically, is an American named W. Edwards Deming, who was virtually unknown in his own country until his ideas of quality control began to make such a big impact on Japanese companies.
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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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In the long run, no matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty.
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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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From a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people’s inborn creativity.
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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 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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All you need is the best product in the world, the most efficient production in the world and global marketing.
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Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell it.
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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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