Akio Morita Quotes, Long Quotes, Working Together Quotes

Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period, it's difficult to see new projects to fruition.

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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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We want to keep the company healthy and its employees happy, and we want to keep them on the job and productive.

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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.

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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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Never break another man's rice bowl.

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We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business. And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.

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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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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.

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In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues. If you trust your colleague today, he may be your competitor tomorrow, because people frequently move from one company to another.

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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, every action analysed and every responsibility assigned by an organisation chart.

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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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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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In the long run, no matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty, your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.

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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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Once you have a staff of prepared, intelligent, and energetic people, the next step is to motivate them to be creative.

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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. Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?

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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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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target. The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.

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Of course we have to make a profit, but we have to make a profit over the long haul, not just the short term, and that means we must keep investing in research and development - it has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony - and in service.

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