I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.
AKIO MORITABut make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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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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More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.
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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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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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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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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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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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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 believe people work for satisfaction.
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But make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.
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The public does not know what is possible. We do.
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
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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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