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 MORITAMy chief job is to constantly stir or rekindle the curiosity of people that gets driven out by bureaucracy and formal schooling systems.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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We treat employees as a member of the family.
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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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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing.
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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
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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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Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period.
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Advertising and promotion alone will not sustain a bad product or a product that is not right for the times.
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The public does not know what is possible. We do.
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The most important mission for a Japanese manager is to develop a healthy relationship with his employees.
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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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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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If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell it.
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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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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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