Of course we have to make a profit, but we have to make a profit over the long … - Akio Morita

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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.

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

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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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