I believe people work for satisfaction.
AKIO MORITAThe 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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If we do our best and make efforts, a peaceful and great future will become ours without fail.
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Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.
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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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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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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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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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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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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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(Japanese Government believes that if you have a big laboratory with all the latest equipment and good funding it will automatically lead to creativity. It doesn’t work that way.
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Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
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Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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Carefully watch how people live, get an intuitive sense as to what they might want and then go with it.
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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.
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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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To create a familylike feeling within the corporation, a feeling that employees and managers share the same fate.
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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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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart’s desire their technological capacity.
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The most important mission for a Japanese manager is to develop a healthy relationship with his employees.
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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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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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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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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 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.
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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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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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