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.
AKIO MORITAI often say to my assistants, “Never trust anybody,” but what I mean is that you should never trust someone else to do a job exactly the way you would want it done.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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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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But make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.
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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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Never break another man’s rice bowl.
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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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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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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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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart’s desire their technological capacity.
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I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.
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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 “patron saint” of Japanese quality control, ironically, is an American named W. Edwards Deming, who was virtually unknown in his own country until his ideas of quality control began to make such a big impact on Japanese companies.
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To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
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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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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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