In the long run, no matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty.
AKIO MORITACarefully watch how people live, get an intuitive sense as to what they might want and then go with it.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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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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If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell it.
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The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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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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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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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 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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(Japanese Government believes that if you have a big laboratory with all the latest equipment and good funding it will automatically lead to creativity. It doesn’t work that way.
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The “patron saint” of Japanese quality control, ironically, is an American named W. Edwards Deming, who was virtually unknown in his own country until his ideas of quality control began to make such a big impact on Japanese companies.
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I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.
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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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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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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business.
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But make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.
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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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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues.
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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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Carefully watch how people live, get an intuitive sense as to what they might want and then go with it.
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From a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people’s inborn creativity.
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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
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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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