In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues.
AKIO MORITAI knew we needed a weapon to break through to the US market, and it had to be something different, something that nobody else was making.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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But make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.
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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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Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.
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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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But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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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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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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People need money, but they also want to be happy in their work and proud of it.
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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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In the long run, no matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty.
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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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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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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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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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