I believe it is a big mistake to think that money is the only way to compensate a person for his work.
AKIO MORITAAmenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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If we do our best and make efforts, a peaceful and great future will become ours without fail.
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Management of an industrial company must be giving targets to the engineers constantly; that may be the most important job management has in dealing with its engineers.
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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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Curiosity is the key to creativity.
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More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.
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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 public does not know what is possible. We do.
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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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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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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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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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We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business.
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It has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony – and in service.
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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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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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Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.
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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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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
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If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
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Of course we have to make a profit, but we have to make a profit over the long haul, not just the short term, and that means we must keep investing in research and development.
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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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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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