We want to keep the company healthy and its employees happy, and we want to keep them on the job and productive.
AKIO MORITAMy chief job is to constantly stir or rekindle the curiosity of people that gets driven out by bureaucracy and formal schooling systems.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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I often say to my assistants, “Never trust anybody,” but what I mean is that you should never trust someone else to do a job exactly the way you would want it done.
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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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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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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Every action analysed and every responsibility assigned by an organisation chart.
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Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period.
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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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The “patron saint” of Japanese quality control, ironically, is an American named W. Edwards Deming, who was virtually unknown in his own country until his ideas of quality control began to make such a big impact on Japanese companies.
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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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If we face recession, we should not lay off employees; the company should sacrifice a profit. It’s management’s risk and management’s responsibility.
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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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