Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
AKIO MORITAPeople need money, but they also want to be happy in their work and proud of it.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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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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But make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.
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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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I believe one of the reasons we went through such a remarkable growth period was that we had this atmosphere of free discussion.
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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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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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Management of an industrial company must be giving targets to the engineers constantly; that may be the most important job management has in dealing with its engineers.
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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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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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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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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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If we do our best and make efforts, a peaceful and great future will become ours without fail.
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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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Never break another man’s rice bowl.
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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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