Carefully watch how people live, get an intuitive sense as to what they might want and then go with it.
AKIO MORITAIf you trust your colleague today, he may be your competitor tomorrow, because people frequently move from one company to another.
More Akio Morita Quotes
-
-
Don’t do market research.
AKIO MORITA -
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 MORITA -
Americans 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.
AKIO MORITA -
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.
AKIO MORITA -
In the long run, no matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty.
AKIO MORITA -
While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
AKIO MORITA -
If you go through life convinced that your way is always best, all the new ideas in the world will pass you by.
AKIO MORITA -
It’s difficult to see new projects to fruition.
AKIO MORITA -
Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period.
AKIO MORITA -
People need money, but they also want to be happy in their work and proud of it.
AKIO MORITA -
Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.
AKIO MORITA -
There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.
AKIO MORITA -
If you trust your colleague today, he may be your competitor tomorrow, because people frequently move from one company to another.
AKIO MORITA -
In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues.
AKIO MORITA -
I consider it my job to nurture the creativity of the people I work with because at Sony we know that a terrific idea is more likely to happen in an open, free and trusting atmosphere than when everything is calculated.
AKIO MORITA -
To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
AKIO MORITA -
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.
AKIO MORITA -
My concept is that anybody has creative ability, but very few people know how to use it.
AKIO MORITA -
The public does not know what is possible. We do.
AKIO MORITA -
My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
AKIO MORITA -
The company must not throw money away on huge bonuses for executives or other frivolities but must share its fate with the workers.
AKIO MORITA -
If we do our best and make efforts, a peaceful and great future will become ours without fail.
AKIO MORITA -
The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
AKIO MORITA -
There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing.
AKIO MORITA -
The most important mission for a Japanese manager is to develop a healthy relationship with his employees.
AKIO MORITA -
It has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony – and in service.
AKIO MORITA