It has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony – and in service.
AKIO MORITAI 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.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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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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Advertising and promotion alone will not sustain a bad product or a product that is not right for the times.
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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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In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues.
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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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Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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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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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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We want to keep the company healthy and its employees happy, and we want to keep them on the job and productive.
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My chief job is to constantly stir or rekindle the curiosity of people that gets driven out by bureaucracy and formal schooling systems.
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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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My concept is that anybody has creative ability, but very few people know how to use it.
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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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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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