Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
AKIO MORITAAn enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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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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Never break another man’s rice bowl.
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Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.
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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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If we face recession, we should not lay off employees; the company should sacrifice a profit. It’s management’s risk and management’s responsibility.
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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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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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We want to keep the company healthy and its employees happy, and we want to keep them on the job and productive.
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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart’s desire their technological capacity.
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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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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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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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To create a familylike feeling within the corporation, a feeling that employees and managers share the same fate.
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I believe it is a big mistake to think that money is the only way to compensate a person for his work.
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I believe people work for satisfaction.
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