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.
AKIO MORITAJapanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.
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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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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 believe people work for satisfaction.
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Once you have a staff of prepared, intelligent, and energetic people, the next step is to motivate them to be creative.
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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.
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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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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 management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
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My concept is that anybody has creative ability, but very few people know how to use it.
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We want everybody to have the best facilities in which to work, but we do not believe in posh and impressive private offices.
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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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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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Our plan is to lead the public with new products rather than ask them what kind of products they want.
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