We want everybody to have the best facilities in which to work, but we do not believe in posh and impressive private offices.
AKIO MORITAIt’s difficult to see new projects to fruition.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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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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In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues.
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If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
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But make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.
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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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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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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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From a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people’s inborn creativity.
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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
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If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell it.
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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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It has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony – and in service.
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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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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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