If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell it.
AKIO MORITAWe want to keep the company healthy and its employees happy, and we want to keep them on the job and productive.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing.
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Our plan is to lead the public with new products rather than ask them what kind of products they want.
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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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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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In the long run, no matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty.
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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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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 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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Never break another man’s rice bowl.
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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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Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
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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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