To create a familylike feeling within the corporation, a feeling that employees and managers share the same fate.
AKIO MORITAAn enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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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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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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Never break another man’s rice bowl.
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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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My concept is that anybody has creative ability, but very few people know how to use it.
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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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There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing.
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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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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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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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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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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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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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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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If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell it.
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