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.
AKIO MORITATo create a familylike feeling within the corporation, a feeling that employees and managers share the same fate.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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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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But make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.
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To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
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Never break another man’s rice bowl.
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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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The most important mission for a Japanese manager is to develop a healthy relationship with his employees.
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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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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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Our plan is to lead the public with new products rather than ask them what kind of products they want.
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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart’s desire their technological capacity.
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It has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony – and in service.
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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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The public does not know what is possible. We do.
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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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