I believe people work for satisfaction.
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More Akio Morita Quotes
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There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing.
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But make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.
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If we do our best and make efforts, a peaceful and great future will become ours without fail.
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To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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The important thing in my view is not to pin the blame for a mistake on somebody, but rather to find out what caused the mistake.
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The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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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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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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To gain profit is important, but you must invest to build up assets that you can cash in in the future.
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Don’t do market research.
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I established the rule that once we hire an employee, his school records are a matter of the past and are no longer used to evaluate his work or decide on his promotion.
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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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If we face recession, we should not lay off employees; the company should sacrifice a profit. It’s management’s risk and management’s responsibility.
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