I believe one of the reasons we went through such a remarkable growth period was that we had this atmosphere of free discussion.
AKIO MORITAYou can be totally rational with a machine.
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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It has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony – and in service.
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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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Once you have a staff of prepared, intelligent, and energetic people, the next step is to motivate them to be creative.
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I 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.
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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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In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues.
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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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There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.
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Curiosity is the key to creativity.
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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
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The company must not throw money away on huge bonuses for executives or other frivolities but must share its fate with the workers.
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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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If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell it.
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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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