Carefully watch how people live, get an intuitive sense as to what they might want and then go with it.
AKIO MORITAMy solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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I believe people work for satisfaction.
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I established the rule that once we hire an employee, his school records are a matter of the past and are no longer used to evaluate his work or decide on his promotion.
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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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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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It’s difficult to see new projects to fruition.
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It has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony – and in service.
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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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Advertising and promotion alone will not sustain a bad product or a product that is not right for the times.
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But make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.
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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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We don’t believe in market research for a new product unknown to the public. So we never do any.
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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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People need money, but they also want to be happy in their work and proud of it.
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I believe it is a big mistake to think that money is the only way to compensate a person for his work.
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Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period.
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