A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
AKIO MORITAJapanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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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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I often say to my assistants, “Never trust anybody,” but what I mean is that you should never trust someone else to do a job exactly the way you would want it done.
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The public does not know what is possible. We do.
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Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.
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We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business.
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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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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 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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If we do our best and make efforts, a peaceful and great future will become ours without fail.
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I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.
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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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We want everybody to have the best facilities in which to work, but we do not believe in posh and impressive private offices.
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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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