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.
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.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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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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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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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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If we do our best and make efforts, a peaceful and great future will become ours without fail.
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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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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
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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 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 don’t believe in market research for a new product unknown to the public. So we never do any.
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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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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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Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period.
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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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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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