More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.
AKIO MORITAEmployees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
More Akio Morita Quotes
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If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
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If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell it.
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Never break another man’s rice bowl.
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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I believe one of the reasons we went through such a remarkable growth period was that we had this atmosphere of free discussion.
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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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And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.
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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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I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.
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Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.
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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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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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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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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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I knew we needed a weapon to break through to the US market, and it had to be something different, something that nobody else was making.
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