Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
AKIO MORITAI 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.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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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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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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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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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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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.
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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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Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
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Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period.
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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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But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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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 people work for satisfaction.
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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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If you trust your colleague today, he may be your competitor tomorrow, because people frequently move from one company to another.
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