Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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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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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My concept is that anybody has creative ability, but very few people know how to use it.
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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
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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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Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
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We treat employees as a member of the family.
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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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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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Carefully watch how people live, get an intuitive sense as to what they might want and then go with it.
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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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Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period.
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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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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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I often say to my assistants, “Never trust anybody,” but what I mean is that you should never trust someone else to do a job exactly the way you would want it done.
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