America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
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It has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony – and in service.
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More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.
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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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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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To gain profit is important, but you must invest to build up assets that you can cash in in the future.
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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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If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell it.
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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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In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues.
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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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If you trust your colleague today, he may be your competitor tomorrow, because people frequently move from one company to another.
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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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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