If you go through life convinced that your way is always best, all the new ideas in the world will pass you by.
AKIO MORITAMy solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.
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All you need is the best product in the world, the most efficient production in the world and global marketing.
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I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.
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In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues.
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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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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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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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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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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.
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Curiosity is the key to creativity.
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The “patron saint” of Japanese quality control, ironically, is an American named W. Edwards Deming, who was virtually unknown in his own country until his ideas of quality control began to make such a big impact on Japanese companies.
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But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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To create a familylike feeling within the corporation, a feeling that employees and managers share the same fate.
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