We want to keep the company healthy and its employees happy, and we want to keep them on the job and productive.
AKIO MORITAThere are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing.
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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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It has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony – and in service.
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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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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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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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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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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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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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Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.
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Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period.
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Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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