If you trust your colleague today, he may be your competitor tomorrow, because people frequently move from one company to another.
AKIO MORITAWhether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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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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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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People need money, but they also want to be happy in their work and proud of it.
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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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I often say to my assistants, “Never trust anybody,” but what I mean is that you should never trust someone else to do a job exactly the way you would want it done.
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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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Of course we have to make a profit, but we have to make a profit over the long haul, not just the short term, and that means we must keep investing in research and development.
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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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There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.
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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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There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing.
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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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(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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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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