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.
AKIO MORITAFrom a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people’s inborn creativity.
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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 have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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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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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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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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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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But make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.
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I have always made it a point to know our employees, to visit every facility of our company, and to try to meet and know every single employee.
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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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If we do our best and make efforts, a peaceful and great future will become ours without fail.
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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 concept is that anybody has creative ability, but very few people know how to use it.
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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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