America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
AKIO MORITAThe most important mission for a Japanese manager is to develop a healthy relationship with his employees.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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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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If we do our best and make efforts, a peaceful and great future will become ours without fail.
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If you go through life convinced that your way is always best, all the new ideas in the world will pass you by.
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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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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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Don’t do market research.
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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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My chief job is to constantly stir or rekindle the curiosity of people that gets driven out by bureaucracy and formal schooling systems.
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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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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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I believe people work for satisfaction.
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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.
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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.
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