Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.
AKIO MORITACarefully watch how people live, get an intuitive sense as to what they might want and then go with it.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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I often say to my assistants, “Never trust anybody,” but what I mean is that you should never trust someone else to do a job exactly the way you would want it done.
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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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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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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
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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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From a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people’s inborn creativity.
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If you go through life convinced that your way is always best, all the new ideas in the world will pass you by.
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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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More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.
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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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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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