We want everybody to have the best facilities in which to work, but we do not believe in posh and impressive private offices.
AKIO MORITAI 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.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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Management of an industrial company must be giving targets to the engineers constantly; that may be the most important job management has in dealing with its engineers.
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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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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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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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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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Advertising and promotion alone will not sustain a bad product or a product that is not right for the times.
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Never break another man’s rice bowl.
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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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Don’t do market research.
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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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Every action analysed and every responsibility assigned by an organisation chart.
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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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I believe people work for satisfaction.
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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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