We want to keep the company healthy and its employees happy, and we want to keep them on the job and productive.
AKIO MORITATo gain profit is important, but you must invest to build up assets that you can cash in in the future.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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But make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.
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To gain profit is important, but you must invest to build up assets that you can cash in in the future.
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Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
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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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More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.
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If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell it.
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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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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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Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period.
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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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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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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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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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Don’t do market research.
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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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To create a familylike feeling within the corporation, a feeling that employees and managers share the same fate.
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If you trust your colleague today, he may be your competitor tomorrow, because people frequently move from one company to another.
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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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The important thing in my view is not to pin the blame for a mistake on somebody, but rather to find out what caused the mistake.
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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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And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.
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If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
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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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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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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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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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