I believe it is a big mistake to think that money is the only way to compensate a person for his work.
AKIO MORITA(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.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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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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Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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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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But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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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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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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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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To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
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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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Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.
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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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If you trust your colleague today, he may be your competitor tomorrow, because people frequently move from one company to another.
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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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