Don’t do market research.
AKIO MORITAThe public does not know what is possible. We do.
More Akio Morita Quotes
-
-
If you go through life convinced that your way is always best, all the new ideas in the world will pass you by.
AKIO MORITA -
There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.
AKIO MORITA -
I have always made it a point to know our employees, to visit every facility of our company, and to try to meet and know every single employee.
AKIO MORITA -
The company must not throw money away on huge bonuses for executives or other frivolities but must share its fate with the workers.
AKIO MORITA -
You can be totally rational with a machine.
AKIO MORITA -
Our plan is to lead the public with new products rather than ask them what kind of products they want.
AKIO MORITA -
To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
AKIO MORITA -
My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
AKIO MORITA -
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.
AKIO MORITA -
I believe people work for satisfaction.
AKIO MORITA -
From a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people’s inborn creativity.
AKIO MORITA -
While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
AKIO MORITA -
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.
AKIO MORITA -
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.
AKIO MORITA -
Management of an industrial company must be giving targets to the engineers constantly; that may be the most important job management has in dealing with its engineers.
AKIO MORITA






