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.
AKIO MORITAThe “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.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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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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Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.
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In the long run, no matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty.
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The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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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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We want to keep the company healthy and its employees happy, and we want to keep them on the job and productive.
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The public does not know what is possible. We do.
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I consider it my job to nurture the creativity of the people I work with because at Sony we know that a terrific idea is more likely to happen in an open, free and trusting atmosphere than when everything is calculated.
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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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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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We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business.
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I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.
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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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