We want to keep the company healthy and its employees happy, and we want to keep them on the job and productive.
AKIO MORITAIf you go through life convinced that your way is always best, all the new ideas in the world will pass you by.
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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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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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell it.
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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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My chief job is to constantly stir or rekindle the curiosity of people that gets driven out by bureaucracy and formal schooling systems.
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But make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.
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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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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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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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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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Advertising and promotion alone will not sustain a bad product or a product that is not right for the times.
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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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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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More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.
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