I believe it is a big mistake to think that money is the only way to compensate a person for his work.
AKIO MORITAThe company must not throw money away on huge bonuses for executives or other frivolities but must share its fate with the workers.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.
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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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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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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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Every action analysed and every responsibility assigned by an organisation chart.
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Our plan is to lead the public with new products rather than ask them what kind of products they want.
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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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There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing.
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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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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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It’s difficult to see new projects to fruition.
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But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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Curiosity is the key to creativity.
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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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In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues.
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To create a familylike feeling within the corporation, a feeling that employees and managers share the same fate.
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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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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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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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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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Never break another man’s rice bowl.
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We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business.
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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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(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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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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