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Akio Morita
Age: 78 †
Born: 1921
Born: January 26
Died: 1999
Died: October 3
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I believe people work for satisfaction.
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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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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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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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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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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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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target. The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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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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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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Our plan is to lead the public with new products rather than ask them what kind of products they want.
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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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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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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.
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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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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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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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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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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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