To create a familylike feeling within the corporation, a feeling that employees and managers share the same fate.
AKIO MORITATo create a familylike feeling within the corporation, a feeling that employees and managers share the same fate.
AKIO MORITAOf 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.
AKIO MORITAI believe people work for satisfaction.
AKIO MORITAJapanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.
AKIO MORITAAmenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
AKIO MORITAWe all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business.
AKIO MORITAAmericans 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.
AKIO MORITAOnce you have a staff of prepared, intelligent, and energetic people, the next step is to motivate them to be creative.
AKIO MORITAAdvertising and promotion alone will not sustain a bad product or a product that is not right for the times.
AKIO MORITAMy chief job is to constantly stir or rekindle the curiosity of people that gets driven out by bureaucracy and formal schooling systems.
AKIO MORITAWe want to keep the company healthy and its employees happy, and we want to keep them on the job and productive.
AKIO MORITAIn the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues.
AKIO MORITA(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.
AKIO MORITAI 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.
AKIO MORITAMy solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
AKIO MORITAEvery action analysed and every responsibility assigned by an organisation chart.
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