My chief job is to constantly stir or rekindle the curiosity of people that gets driven out by bureaucracy and formal schooling systems.
AKIO MORITAWe don’t believe in market research for a new product unknown to the public. So we never do any.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period.
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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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We want everybody to have the best facilities in which to work, but we do not believe in posh and impressive private offices.
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In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues.
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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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I believe it is a big mistake to think that money is the only way to compensate a person for his work.
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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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Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.
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The company must not throw money away on huge bonuses for executives or other frivolities but must share its fate with the workers.
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(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.
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Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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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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