But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
AKIO MORITAIf we do our best and make efforts, a peaceful and great future will become ours without fail.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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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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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.
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Don’t do market research.
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My concept is that anybody has creative ability, but very few people know how to use it.
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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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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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Never break another man’s rice bowl.
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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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Every action analysed and every responsibility assigned by an organisation chart.
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It’s difficult to see new projects to fruition.
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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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The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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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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Our plan is to lead the public with new products rather than ask them what kind of products they want.
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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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We don’t believe in market research for a new product unknown to the public. So we never do any.
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There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.
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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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We treat employees as a member of the family.
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The public does not know what is possible. We do.
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Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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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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The most important mission for a Japanese manager is to develop a healthy relationship with his employees.
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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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But make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.
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