It has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony – and in service.
AKIO MORITAIf you trust your colleague today, he may be your competitor tomorrow, because people frequently move from one company to another.
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 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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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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My chief job is to constantly stir or rekindle the curiosity of people that gets driven out by bureaucracy and formal schooling systems.
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Don’t do market research.
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More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.
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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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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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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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But make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.
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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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In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues.
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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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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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In the long run, no matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty.
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