There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.
AKIO MORITATo gain profit is important, but you must invest to build up assets that you can cash in in the future.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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It’s difficult to see new projects to fruition.
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We treat employees as a member of the family.
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If we do our best and make efforts, a peaceful and great future will become ours without fail.
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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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Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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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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Don’t do market research.
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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart’s desire their technological capacity.
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Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
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All you need is the best product in the world, the most efficient production in the world and global marketing.
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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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People need money, but they also want to be happy in their work and proud of it.
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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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Americans make money by playing `money games,’ namely mergers, acquisitions, by simply moving money back and forth … instead of creating and producing goods with some actual value.
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