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Akio Morita est le cofondateur de la compagnie japonaise Sony et un physicien japonais.

✵ 26. janvier 1921 – 3. octobre 1999  •  Autres noms Морита Акио
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Akio Morita: Citations en anglais

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

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Source: Made in Japan (1986), p. 184.

“…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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Source: Made in Japan (1986), p. 170.

“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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Source: Made in Japan (1986), p. 157.

“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.”

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Source: Made in Japan (1986), p. 137.

“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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Source: Made in Japan (1986), p. 182.

“Executives of the company must have the necessary qualities to direct the personnel by showing them the way to do things.”

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Akio Morita, cited in: Mark Fisher (1991) The millionaire's book of quotations. p. 80.

“I have always made it a point to know our employees, to visit every facility of our company, and to try to meet and know every single employee.”

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Source: Made in Japan (1986), p. 148.

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

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Source: Made in Japan (1986), p. 173.

“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.”

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Source: Made in Japan (1986), p. 135.

“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.”

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Source: Made in Japan (1986), p. 138.

“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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Source: Made in Japan (1986), p. 175.

“In all my years in business I can recall very few people I have wanted to fire for making mistakes.”

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Source: Made in Japan (1986), p. 151.

“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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Source: Made in Japan (1986), p. 130.

“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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Source: Made in Japan (1986), p. 164.

“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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Source: Made in Japan (1986), p. 160.

“Advertising and promotion alone will not sustain a bad product or a product that is not right for the times.”

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Source: Made in Japan (1986), p. 158.

“…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.”

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Source: Made in Japan (1986), p. 174.