If you trust your colleague today, he may be your competitor tomorrow, because people frequently move from one company to another.
AKIO MORITAAmerica looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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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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(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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If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
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Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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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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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart’s desire their technological capacity.
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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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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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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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The public does not know what is possible. We do.
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Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period.
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I have always made it a point to know our employees, to visit every facility of our company, and to try to meet and know every single employee.
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