In the long run, no matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty.
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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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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The important thing in my view is not to pin the blame for a mistake on somebody, but rather to find out what caused the mistake.
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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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The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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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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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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We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business.
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Don’t do market research.
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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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Once you have a staff of prepared, intelligent, and energetic people, the next step is to motivate them to be creative.
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Never break another man’s rice bowl.
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I believe it is a big mistake to think that money is the only way to compensate a person for his work.
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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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Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period.
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And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.
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Executives of the company must have the necessary qualities to direct the personnel by showing them the way to do things.
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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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From a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people’s inborn creativity.
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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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I have always made it a point to know our employees, to visit every facility of our company, and to try to meet and know every single employee.
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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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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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There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.
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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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Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.
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