If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
AKIO MORITAAll you need is the best product in the world, the most efficient production in the world and global marketing.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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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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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
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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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The public does not know what is possible. We do.
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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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The remarkable thing about management is that a manager can go on for years making mistakes that nobody is aware of, which means that management can be a kind of a con job.
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Don’t do market research.
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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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We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business.
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If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell it.
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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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It’s difficult to see new projects to fruition.
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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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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.
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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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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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Executives of the company must have the necessary qualities to direct the personnel by showing them the way to do things.
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Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period.
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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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Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
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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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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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More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.
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