I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.
AKIO MORITAPeople need money, but they also want to be happy in their work and proud of it.
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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Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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The remarkable thing about management is that a manager can go on for years making mistakes that nobody is aware of, which means that management can be a kind of a con job.
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But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell it.
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Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.
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It has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony – and in service.
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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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There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing.
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The company must not throw money away on huge bonuses for executives or other frivolities but must share its fate with the workers.
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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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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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