Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
AKIO MORITABut if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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It has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony – and in service.
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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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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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All you need is the best product in the world, the most efficient production in the world and global marketing.
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My concept is that anybody has creative ability, but very few people know how to use it.
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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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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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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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I believe people work for satisfaction.
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Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
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We treat employees as a member of the family.
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I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.
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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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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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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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