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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.

Akio Morita

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Akio Morita
Age: 78 †
Born: 1921
Born: January 26
Died: 1999
Died: October 3
Businessman
Businessperson
Engineer
Physicist
Amenities
Japan
Management
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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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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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America looks 10 minutes ahead Japan looks 10 years.
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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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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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There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.
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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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The patron saint of Japanese quality control, ironically, is an American named W. Edwards Deming, who was virtually unknown in his own country until his ideas of quality control began to make such a big impact on Japanese companies.
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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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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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If we face recession, we should not lay off employees the company should sacrifice a profit. It's management's risk and management's responsibility. Employees are not guilty why should they suffer?
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Curiosity is the key to creativity.
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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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I believe one of the reasons we went through such a remarkable growth period was that we had this atmosphere of free discussion.
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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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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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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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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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Never break another man's rice bowl.
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