Advertising and promotion alone will not sustain a bad product or a product that is not right for the times.
AKIO MORITAAnd then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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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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If we do our best and make efforts, a peaceful and great future will become ours without fail.
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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.
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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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All you need is the best product in the world, the most efficient production in the world and global marketing.
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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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It has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony – and in service.
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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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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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To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
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Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
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If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
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To gain profit is important, but you must invest to build up assets that you can cash in in the future.
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It’s difficult to see new projects to fruition.
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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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