People need money, but they also want to be happy in their work and proud of it.
AKIO MORITAIf management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
More Akio Morita Quotes
-
-
Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
AKIO MORITA -
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.
AKIO MORITA -
Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period.
AKIO MORITA -
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.
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.
AKIO MORITA -
My concept is that anybody has creative ability, but very few people know how to use it.
AKIO MORITA -
While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
AKIO MORITA -
Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
AKIO MORITA -
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.
AKIO MORITA -
Americans make money by playing `money games,’ namely mergers, acquisitions, by simply moving money back and forth … instead of creating and producing goods with some actual value.
AKIO MORITA -
Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
AKIO MORITA -
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 MORITA -
America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
AKIO MORITA -
But make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.
AKIO MORITA -
We want to keep the company healthy and its employees happy, and we want to keep them on the job and productive.
AKIO MORITA