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.
AKIO MORITAWe all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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It’s difficult to see new projects to fruition.
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But make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.
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In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues.
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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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To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
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All you need is the best product in the world, the most efficient production in the world and global marketing.
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It has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony – and in service.
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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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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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We want everybody to have the best facilities in which to work, but we do not believe in posh and impressive private offices.
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Every action analysed and every responsibility assigned by an organisation chart.
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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 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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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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From a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people’s inborn creativity.
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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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In the long run, no matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty.
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People need money, but they also want to be happy in their work and proud of it.
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Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business.
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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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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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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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Advertising and promotion alone will not sustain a bad product or a product that is not right for the times.
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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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