Akio Morita Quotes, Work Quotes, People Quotes

Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.

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

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Curiosity is the key to creativity.

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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(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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There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing. To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.

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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job, I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.

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The important thing in my view is not to pin the blame for a mistake on somebody, but rather to find out what caused the mistake.

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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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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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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.

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