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 MORITAThe best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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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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We don’t believe in market research for a new product unknown to the public. So we never do any.
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I believe people work for satisfaction.
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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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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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Of course we have to make a profit, but we have to make a profit over the long haul, not just the short term, and that means we must keep investing in research and development.
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But make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.
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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.
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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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More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.
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If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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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.
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To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
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If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell it.
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Don’t do market research.
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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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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
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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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(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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We treat employees as a member of the family.
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All you need is the best product in the world, the most efficient production in the world and global marketing.
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It has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony – and in service.
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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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