To gain profit is important, but you must invest to build up assets that you can cash in in the future.
AKIO MORITAThe most important mission for a Japanese manager is to develop a healthy relationship with his employees.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
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If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell it.
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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 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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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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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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To create a familylike feeling within the corporation, a feeling that employees and managers share the same fate.
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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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More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.
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I believe one of the reasons we went through such a remarkable growth period was that we had this atmosphere of free discussion.
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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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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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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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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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