In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues.
AKIO MORITAOf 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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We treat employees as a member of the family.
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But make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.
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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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I believe people work for satisfaction.
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The most important mission for a Japanese manager is to develop a healthy relationship with his employees.
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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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If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell 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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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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Once you have a staff of prepared, intelligent, and energetic people, the next step is to motivate them to be creative.
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We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business.
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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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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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Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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Never break another man’s rice bowl.
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