It has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony – and in service.
AKIO MORITAWhen I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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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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People need money, but they also want to be happy in their work and proud of it.
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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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I believe it is a big mistake to think that money is the only way to compensate a person for his work.
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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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My concept is that anybody has creative ability, but very few people know how to use it.
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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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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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Never break another man’s rice bowl.
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There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing.
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To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
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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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Don’t do market research.
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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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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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