America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
AKIO MORITAWe treat employees as a member of the family.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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The important thing in my view is not to pin the blame for a mistake on somebody, but rather to find out what caused the mistake.
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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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It has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony – and in service.
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing.
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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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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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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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If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell it.
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In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues.
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Carefully watch how people live, get an intuitive sense as to what they might want and then go with it.
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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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People need money, but they also want to be happy in their work and proud of 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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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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