Don’t do market research.
AKIO MORITATo have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.
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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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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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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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Never break another man’s rice bowl.
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Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period.
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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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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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All you need is the best product in the world, the most efficient production in the world and global marketing.
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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 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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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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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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It has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony – and in service.
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The most important mission for a Japanese manager is to develop a healthy relationship with his employees.
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