If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell it.
AKIO MORITAJapanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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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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The public does not know what is possible. We do.
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In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues.
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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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We don’t believe in market research for a new product unknown to the public. So we never do any.
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If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
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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 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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In the long run, no matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty.
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To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
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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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From a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people’s inborn creativity.
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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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Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
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