When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
AKIO MORITAOf 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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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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The 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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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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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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Executives of the company must have the necessary qualities to direct the personnel by showing them the way to do things.
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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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I have always made it a point to know our employees, to visit every facility of our company, and to try to meet and know every single employee.
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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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The company must not throw money away on huge bonuses for executives or other frivolities but must share its fate with the workers.
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There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.
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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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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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If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
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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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