If we do our best and make efforts, a peaceful and great future will become ours without fail.
AKIO MORITAOur plan is to lead the public with new products rather than ask them what kind of products they want.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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The remarkable thing about management is that a manager can go on for years making mistakes that nobody is aware of, which means that management can be a kind of a con job.
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Never break another man’s rice bowl.
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In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues.
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Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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If we face recession, we should not lay off employees; the company should sacrifice a profit. It’s management’s risk and management’s responsibility.
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I believe one of the reasons we went through such a remarkable growth period was that we had this atmosphere of free discussion.
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Don’t do market research.
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Advertising and promotion alone will not sustain a bad product or a product that is not right for the times.
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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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Carefully watch how people live, get an intuitive sense as to what they might want and then go with it.
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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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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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Every action analysed and every responsibility assigned by an organisation chart.
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If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell it.
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