I believe people work for satisfaction.
AKIO MORITABut make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.
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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I believe one of the reasons we went through such a remarkable growth period was that we had this atmosphere of free discussion.
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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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Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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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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We want to keep the company healthy and its employees happy, and we want to keep them on the job and productive.
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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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It has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony – and in service.
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We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business.
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing.
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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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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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Carefully watch how people live, get an intuitive sense as to what they might want and then go with it.
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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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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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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.
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The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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In the long run, no matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty.
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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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We want everybody to have the best facilities in which to work, but we do not believe in posh and impressive private offices.
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In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues.
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Our plan is to lead the public with new products rather than ask them what kind of products they want.
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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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Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.
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