It’s difficult to see new projects to fruition.
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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Advertising and promotion alone will not sustain a bad product or a product that is not right for the times.
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Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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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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But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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We treat employees as a member of the family.
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The most important mission for a Japanese manager is to develop a healthy relationship with his employees.
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To gain profit is important, but you must invest to build up assets that you can cash in in the future.
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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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Never break another man’s rice bowl.
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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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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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I knew we needed a weapon to break through to the US market, and it had to be something different, something that nobody else was making.
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All you need is the best product in the world, the most efficient production in the world and global marketing.
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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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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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