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.
AKIO MORITATo gain profit is important, but you must invest to build up assets that you can cash in in the future.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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I believe people work for satisfaction.
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If you trust your colleague today, he may be your competitor tomorrow, because people frequently move from one company to another.
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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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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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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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Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period.
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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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 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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My concept is that anybody has creative ability, but very few people know how to use it.
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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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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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(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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