In the long run, no matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty.
AKIO MORITAPeople need money, but they also want to be happy in their work and proud of it.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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If we do our best and make efforts, a peaceful and great future will become ours without fail.
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But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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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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There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing.
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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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I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.
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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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It has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony – and in service.
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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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Every action analysed and every responsibility assigned by an organisation chart.
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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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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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We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business.
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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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Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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All you need is the best product in the world, the most efficient production in the world and global marketing.
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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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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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My chief job is to constantly stir or rekindle the curiosity of people that gets driven out by bureaucracy and formal schooling systems.
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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.
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But make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.
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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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To create a familylike feeling within the corporation, a feeling that employees and managers share the same fate.
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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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