Executives of the company must have the necessary qualities to direct the personnel by showing them the way to do things.
AKIO MORITAIn the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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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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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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If you go through life convinced that your way is always best, all the new ideas in the world will pass you by.
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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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Of course we have to make a profit, but we have to make a profit over the long haul, not just the short term, and that means we must keep investing in research and development.
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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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It has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony – and in service.
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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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From a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people’s inborn creativity.
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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period.
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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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I knew we needed a weapon to break through to the US market, and it had to be something different, something that nobody else was making.
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But make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.
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