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.
AKIO MORITAWe will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart’s desire their technological capacity.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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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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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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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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The most important mission for a Japanese manager is to develop a healthy relationship with his employees.
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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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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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More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.
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The remarkable thing about management is that a manager can go on for years making mistakes that nobody is aware of, which means that management can be a kind of a con job.
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It has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony – and in service.
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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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But make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.
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Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
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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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Don’t do market research.
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I believe people work for satisfaction.
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