We treat employees as a member of the family.
AKIO MORITAPeople need money, but they also want to be happy in their work and proud of it.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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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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Executives of the company must have the necessary qualities to direct the personnel by showing them the way to do things.
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Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period.
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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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Carefully watch how people live, get an intuitive sense as to what they might want and then go with it.
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To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
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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.
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The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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The public does not know what is possible. We do.
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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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We don’t believe in market research for a new product unknown to the public. So we never do any.
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More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.
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Once you have a staff of prepared, intelligent, and energetic people, the next step is to motivate them to be creative.
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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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