If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
AKIO MORITAThe most important mission for a Japanese manager is to develop a healthy relationship with his employees.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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All you need is the best product in the world, the most efficient production in the world and global marketing.
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The public does not know what is possible. We do.
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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period.
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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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I believe people work for satisfaction.
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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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But make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.
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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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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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The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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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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If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell it.
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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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