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.
AKIO MORITAAmerica looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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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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Our plan is to lead the public with new products rather than ask them what kind of products they want.
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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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Every action analysed and every responsibility assigned by an organisation chart.
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Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period.
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We want everybody to have the best facilities in which to work, but we do not believe in posh and impressive private offices.
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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 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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It has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony – and in service.
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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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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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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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