Never break another man’s rice bowl.
AKIO MORITAIf you go through life convinced that your way is always best, all the new ideas in the world will pass you by.
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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In the long run, no matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty.
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To create a familylike feeling within the corporation, a feeling that employees and managers share the same fate.
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It has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony – and in service.
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Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.
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I believe it is a big mistake to think that money is the only way to compensate a person for his work.
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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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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 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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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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Our plan is to lead the public with new products rather than ask them what kind of products they want.
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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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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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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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