Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
AKIO MORITAWhether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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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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In the long run, no matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty.
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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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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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If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell it.
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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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But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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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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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
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The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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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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Don’t do market research.
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