I believe one of the reasons we went through such a remarkable growth period was that we had this atmosphere of free discussion.
AKIO MORITAThe only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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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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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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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.
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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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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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If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
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People need money, but they also want to be happy in their work and proud of it.
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I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.
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The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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Management of an industrial company must be giving targets to the engineers constantly; that may be the most important job management has in dealing with its engineers.
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I believe people work for satisfaction.
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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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Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.
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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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The public does not know what is possible. We do.
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