Never break another man’s rice bowl.
AKIO MORITAIf you go through life convinced that your way is always best, all the new ideas in the world will pass you by.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing.
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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.
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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.
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The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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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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Advertising and promotion alone will not sustain a bad product or a product that is not right for the times.
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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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Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.
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We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business.
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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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We treat employees as a member of the family.
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