The remarkable thing about management is that a manager can go on for years making mistakes that nobody is aware of, which means that management can be a kind of a con job.
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Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
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The company must not throw money away on huge bonuses for executives or other frivolities but must share its fate with the workers.
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To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
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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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Never break another man’s rice bowl.
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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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If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell it.
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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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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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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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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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I believe people work for satisfaction.
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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 treat employees as a member of the family.
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