If we face recession, we should not lay off employees; the company should sacrifice a profit. It’s management’s risk and management’s responsibility.
AKIO MORITAThe only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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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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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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Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
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(Japanese Government believes that if you have a big laboratory with all the latest equipment and good funding it will automatically lead to creativity. It doesn’t work that way.
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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 believe people work for satisfaction.
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But make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.
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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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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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I believe one of the reasons we went through such a remarkable growth period was that we had this atmosphere of free discussion.
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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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I believe it is a big mistake to think that money is the only way to compensate a person for his work.
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Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell it.
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