If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
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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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 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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(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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The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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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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People need money, but they also want to be happy in their work and proud of it.
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Don’t do market research.
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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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In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues.
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The public does not know what is possible. We do.
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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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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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If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell it.
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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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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.
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