Akio Morita Quotes, Jobs Quotes, Creativity Quotes

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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But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.

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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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More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.

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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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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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If we do our best and make efforts, a peaceful and great future will become ours without fail. Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.

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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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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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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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I believe people work for satisfaction.

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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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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.

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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 solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.

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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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I have always made it a point to know our employees, to visit every facility of our company, and to try to meet and know every single employee.

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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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All you need is the best product in the world, the most efficient production in the world and global marketing.

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