The company must not throw money away on huge bonuses for executives or other frivolities but must share its fate with the workers.
AKIO MORITAAdvertising and promotion alone will not sustain a bad product or a product that is not right for the times.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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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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It has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony – and in service.
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To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
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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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We treat employees as a member of the family.
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We want to keep the company healthy and its employees happy, and we want to keep them on the job and productive.
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My chief job is to constantly stir or rekindle the curiosity of people that gets driven out by bureaucracy and formal schooling systems.
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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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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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I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.
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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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Americans make money by playing `money games,’ namely mergers, acquisitions, by simply moving money back and forth … instead of creating and producing goods with some actual value.
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I established the rule that once we hire an employee, his school records are a matter of the past and are no longer used to evaluate his work or decide on his promotion.
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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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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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