Every action analysed and every responsibility assigned by an organisation chart.
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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People need money, but they also want to be happy in their work and proud of it.
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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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My concept is that anybody has creative ability, but very few people know how to use it.
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Curiosity is the key to creativity.
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But make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.
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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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The public does not know what is possible. We do.
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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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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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The “patron saint” of Japanese quality control, ironically, is an American named W. Edwards Deming, who was virtually unknown in his own country until his ideas of quality control began to make such a big impact on Japanese companies.
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If we face recession, we should not lay off employees; the company should sacrifice a profit. It’s management’s risk and management’s responsibility.
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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 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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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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