It has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony – and in service.
AKIO MORITAFrom a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people’s inborn creativity.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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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 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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Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
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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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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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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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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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I believe people work for satisfaction.
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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period.
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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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We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business.
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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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