Akio Morita Quotes, Mistake Quotes, Believe Quotes

I believe it is a big mistake to think that money is the only way to compensate a person for his work. People need money, but they also want to be happy in their work and proud of it.

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You can be totally rational with a machine. But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.

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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.

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From a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people's inborn creativity. My concept is that anybody has creative ability, but very few people know how to use it.

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

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We treat employees as a member of the family. If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.

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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.

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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.

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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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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.

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

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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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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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