The company must not throw money away on huge bonuses for executives or other frivolities but must share its fate with the workers.
AKIO MORITAAdvertising and promotion alone will not sustain a bad product or a product that is not right for the times.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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Curiosity is the key to creativity.
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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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If you trust your colleague today, he may be your competitor tomorrow, because people frequently move from one company to another.
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The “patron saint” of Japanese quality control, ironically, is an American named W. Edwards Deming, who was virtually unknown in his own country until his ideas of quality control began to make such a big impact on Japanese companies.
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If you go through life convinced that your way is always best, all the new ideas in the world will pass you by.
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If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
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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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We don’t believe in market research for a new product unknown to the public. So we never do any.
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I believe people work for satisfaction.
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To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
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But make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.
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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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I consider it my job to nurture the creativity of the people I work with because at Sony we know that a terrific idea is more likely to happen in an open, free and trusting atmosphere than when everything is calculated.
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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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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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