Akio Morita Quotes, Running Quotes, Mean Quotes

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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The public does not know what is possible. We do.

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Advertising and promotion alone will not sustain a bad product or a product that is not right for the times.

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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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We don't believe in market research for a new product unknown to the public. So we never do any.

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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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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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The most important mission for a Japanese manager is to develop a healthy relationship with his employees, to create a familylike feeling within the corporation, a feeling that employees and managers share the same fate.

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Carefully watch how people live, get an intuitive sense as to what they might want and then go with it. Don’t do market research.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.

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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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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.

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