Akio Morita quotes - page 2

More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods. (Akio Morita)
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. View quote
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Executives of the company must have the necessary qualities to direct the personnel by showing them the way to do things. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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..I believe it is a big mistake to think that money is the only way to compensate a person for his work. People need money, but they also want to be happy in their work and proud of it. View quote
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Curiosity is the key to creativity. (Akio Morita)
There is a major difference between you and me,' I told him. 'Yes, I am rich. But you are wealthy. And that is why you can buy such (expensive jewelry (for your wife and why I cannot. View quote
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The concept of lifetime employment arose when Japanese managers and employees both realized that they had much in common and that they had to make some long-range plans. View quote
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The effect of three things - the new laws, the revision of the tax system, and the elimination of the zaibatsu conglomerates - was to make Japan an egalitarian society for the first time. View quote
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What we in industry learned in dealing with people is that people do not work just for money and that if you are trying to motivate, money is not the most effective tool. View quote
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In all my years in business I can recall very few people I have wanted to fire for making mistakes. View quote
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...if you have so many lawyers, they have to find business, which sometimes they have to create. Sometimes nonsensical lawsuits are generated by lawyers. In this country (the United States everybody sues everybody. View quote
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We made a completely new kind of transistor (the NPN BJT, and in our development work, our researcher, Leo Esaki, demonstrated the electron tunneling effect, which led to the development of the tunnel diode for which he was awarded a Nobel Prize seventeen years later, after he had joined IBM. View quote
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Only with these three kinds of creativity - technology, product planning, and marketing - can the public receive the benefit of a new technology. View quote
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The American system of management, in my opinion, also relies too much on outsiders to help make business decisions., and this is because of the insecurity that American decision makers feel in their jobs, as compared with most top Japanese corporate executives. View quote
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The investor and the employee are in the same position, but sometimes the employee is more important, because he will be there a long time whereas an investor will often get in and out on a whim in order to make a profit. (Akio Morita)
...the differences between U. S. and Japanese companies go beyond the cultural. View quote
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I have had my difficulties with the American legal system, and so I feel qualified to talk about it. View quote
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...if you are nothing but profit-conscious, you cannot see the opportunities ahead. View quote
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...the key factor in industry is creativity. I said 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. View quote
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