We want everybody to have the best facilities in which to work, but we do not believe in posh and impressive private offices.
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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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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It’s difficult to see new projects to fruition.
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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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The public does not know what is possible. We do.
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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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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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I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.
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Never break another man’s rice bowl.
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We treat employees as a member of the family.
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If we face recession, we should not lay off employees; the company should sacrifice a profit. It’s management’s risk and management’s responsibility.
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The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
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My chief job is to constantly stir or rekindle the curiosity of people that gets driven out by bureaucracy and formal schooling systems.
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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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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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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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Advertising and promotion alone will not sustain a bad product or a product that is not right for the times.
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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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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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My concept is that anybody has creative ability, but very few people know how to use it.
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But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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I established the rule that once we hire an employee, his school records are a matter of the past and are no longer used to evaluate his work or decide on his promotion.
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Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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In the long run, no matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty.
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The most important mission for a Japanese manager is to develop a healthy relationship with his employees.
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