Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.
AKIO MORITAIf we do our best and make efforts, a peaceful and great future will become ours without fail.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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I believe people work for satisfaction.
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Don’t do market research.
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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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Carefully watch how people live, get an intuitive sense as to what they might want and then go with it.
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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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And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.
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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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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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There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.
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If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell it.
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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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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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The “patron saint” of Japanese quality control, ironically, is an American named W. Edwards Deming, who was virtually unknown in his own country until his ideas of quality control began to make such a big impact on Japanese companies.
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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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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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