The public does not know what is possible. We do.
AKIO MORITAWe want everybody to have the best facilities in which to work, but we do not believe in posh and impressive private offices.
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Every action analysed and every responsibility assigned by an organisation chart.
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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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It has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony – and in service.
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If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell it.
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We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business.
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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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But make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.
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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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We don’t believe in market research for a new product unknown to the public. So we never do any.
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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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To gain profit is important, but you must invest to build up assets that you can cash in in the future.
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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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Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.
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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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We treat employees as a member of the family.
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To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
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My chief job is to constantly stir or rekindle the curiosity of people that gets driven out by bureaucracy and formal schooling systems.
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Carefully watch how people live, get an intuitive sense as to what they might want and then go with it.
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Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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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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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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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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(Japanese Government believes that if you have a big laboratory with all the latest equipment and good funding it will automatically lead to creativity. It doesn’t work that way.
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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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The most important mission for a Japanese manager is to develop a healthy relationship with his employees.
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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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