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.
AKIO MORITAPeople need money, but they also want to be happy in their work and proud of it.
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Carefully watch how people live, get an intuitive sense as to what they might want and then go with it.
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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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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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From a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people’s inborn creativity.
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We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business.
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We want everybody to have the best facilities in which to work, but we do not believe in posh and impressive private offices.
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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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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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All you need is the best product in the world, the most efficient production in the world and global marketing.
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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
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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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There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing.
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In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues.
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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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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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