If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell it.
AKIO MORITAWhen I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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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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I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.
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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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Carefully watch how people live, get an intuitive sense as to what they might want and then go with it.
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Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart’s desire their technological capacity.
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But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing.
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I believe it is a big mistake to think that money is the only way to compensate a person for his work.
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Executives of the company must have the necessary qualities to direct the personnel by showing them the way to do things.
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The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.
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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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It has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony – and in service.
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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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