We want to keep the company healthy and its employees happy, and we want to keep them on the job and productive.
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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But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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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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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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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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Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.
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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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Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
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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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To gain profit is important, but you must invest to build up assets that you can cash in in the future.
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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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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The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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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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