Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
AKIO MORITAYour business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
AKIO MORITAEmployees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
AKIO MORITAI 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 MORITAAll you need is the best product in the world, the most efficient production in the world and global marketing.
AKIO MORITA(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.
AKIO MORITAAn enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
AKIO MORITAAdvertising and promotion alone will not sustain a bad product or a product that is not right for the times.
AKIO MORITAA company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
AKIO MORITAI 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 MORITAWhile the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
AKIO MORITAThe best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
AKIO MORITAMy solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
AKIO MORITAWhen I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
AKIO MORITAI 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.
AKIO MORITAManagement 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 MORITAOf 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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