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.
AKIO MORITAOnce you have a staff of prepared, intelligent, and energetic people, the next step is to motivate them to be creative.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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My chief job is to constantly stir or rekindle the curiosity of people that gets driven out by bureaucracy and formal schooling systems.
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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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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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If you trust your colleague today, he may be your competitor tomorrow, because people frequently move from one company to another.
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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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Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period.
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Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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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.
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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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People need money, but they also want to be happy in their work and proud of it.
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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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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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Carefully watch how people live, get an intuitive sense as to what they might want and then go with it.
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If we do our best and make efforts, a peaceful and great future will become ours without fail.
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