I believe one of the reasons we went through such a remarkable growth period was that we had this atmosphere of free discussion.
AKIO MORITAEvery action analysed and every responsibility assigned by an organisation chart.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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To gain profit is important, but you must invest to build up assets that you can cash in in the future.
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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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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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To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
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It has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony – and in service.
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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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People need money, but they also want to be happy in their work and proud of it.
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Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
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I have always made it a point to know our employees, to visit every facility of our company, and to try to meet and know every single employee.
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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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The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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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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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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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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Our plan is to lead the public with new products rather than ask them what kind of products they want.
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