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.
AKIO MORITAOnce you have a staff of prepared, intelligent, and energetic people, the next step is to motivate them to be creative.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues.
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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.
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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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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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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
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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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If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell it.
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I knew we needed a weapon to break through to the US market, and it had to be something different, something that nobody else was making.
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I have always made it a point to know our employees, to visit every facility of our company, and to try to meet and know every single employee.
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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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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.
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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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Our plan is to lead the public with new products rather than ask them what kind of products they want.
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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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From a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people’s inborn creativity.
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People need money, but they also want to be happy in their work and proud of it.
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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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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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More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.
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There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing.
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If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
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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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I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.
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We treat employees as a member of the family.
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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