More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.
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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Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
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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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Executives of the company must have the necessary qualities to direct the personnel by showing them the way to do things.
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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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In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues.
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The company must not throw money away on huge bonuses for executives or other frivolities but must share its fate with the workers.
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It has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony – and in service.
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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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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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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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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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The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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Never break another man’s rice bowl.
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If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell it.
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