It’s difficult to see new projects to fruition.
AKIO MORITATo have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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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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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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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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Curiosity is the key to creativity.
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To gain profit is important, but you must invest to build up assets that you can cash in in the future.
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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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But make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.
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It has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony – and in service.
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We treat employees as a member of the family.
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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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I believe one of the reasons we went through such a remarkable growth period was that we had this atmosphere of free discussion.
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We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business.
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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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