Akio Morita Quotes, Fate Quotes, Healthy Quotes

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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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.

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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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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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Management of an industrial company must be giving targets to the engineers constantly; that may be the most important job management has in dealing with its engineers.

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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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Americans make money by playing `money games,' namely mergers, acquisitions, by simply moving money back and forth ... instead of creating and producing goods with some actual value.

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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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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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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 people work for satisfaction.

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(Japanese Government believes that if you have a big laboratory with all the latest equipment and good funding it will automatically lead to creativity. It doesn't work that way.

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

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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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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.

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