More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.
AKIO MORITAIf you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell it.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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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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People need money, but they also want to be happy in their work and proud of it.
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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business.
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The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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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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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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There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.
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The public does not know what is possible. We do.
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Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period.
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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 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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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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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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