Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.
AKIO MORITAThe company must not throw money away on huge bonuses for executives or other frivolities but must share its fate with the workers.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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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.
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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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It has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony – and in service.
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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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Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.
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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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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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Every action analysed and every responsibility assigned by an organisation chart.
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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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I established the rule that once we hire an employee, his school records are a matter of the past and are no longer used to evaluate his work or decide on his promotion.
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The remarkable thing about management is that a manager can go on for years making mistakes that nobody is aware of, which means that management can be a kind of a con job.
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But make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.
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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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It’s difficult to see new projects to fruition.
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