To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
AKIO MORITAWe 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.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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The company must not throw money away on huge bonuses for executives or other frivolities but must share its fate with the workers.
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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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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing.
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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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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.
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I established the rule that once we hire an employee, his school records are a matter of the past and are no longer used to evaluate his work or decide on his promotion.
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It’s difficult to see new projects to fruition.
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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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Carefully watch how people live, get an intuitive sense as to what they might want and then go with it.
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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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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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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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Never break another man’s rice bowl.
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