While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
AKIO MORITAI 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.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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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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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.
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But make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell it.
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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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And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.
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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
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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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I believe one of the reasons we went through such a remarkable growth period was that we had this atmosphere of free discussion.
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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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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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We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business.
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