You can be totally rational with a machine.
AKIO MORITABut make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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I believe people work for satisfaction.
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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 solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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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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Our plan is to lead the public with new products rather than ask them what kind of products they want.
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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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But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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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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From a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people’s inborn creativity.
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We treat employees as a member of the family.
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Executives of the company must have the necessary qualities to direct the personnel by showing them the way to do things.
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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 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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But make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.
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I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.
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