Akio Morita Quotes
Top 36 wise famous quotes and sayings by Akio Morita
Akio Morita Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Akio Morita on Wise Famous Quotes.
The company must not throw money away on huge bonuses for executives or other frivolities but must share its fate with the workers.
We treat employees as a member of the family. If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
We want to keep the company healthy and its employees happy, and we want to keep them on the job and productive.
When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job, I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.
I believe one of the reasons we went through such a remarkable growth period was that we had this atmosphere of free discussion.
To gain profit is important, but you must invest to build up assets that you can cash in in the future.
Once you have a staff of prepared, intelligent, and energetic people, the next step is to motivate them to be creative.
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.
You can be totally rational with a machine. But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
We want everybody to have the best facilities in which to work, but we do not believe in posh and impressive private offices.
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.
Our plan is to lead the public with new products rather than ask them what kind of products they want,
Advertising and promotion alone will not sustain a bad product or a product that is not right for the times.
Carefully watch how people live, get an intuitive sense as to what they might want and then go with it. Don't do market research.
Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period, it's difficult to see new projects to fruition.
My chief job is to constantly stir or rekindle the curiosity of people that gets driven out by bureaucracy and formal schooling systems.
More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.
Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.
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.
There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.
Executives of the company must have the necessary qualities to direct the personnel by showing them the way to do things.
If you go through life convinced that your way is always best, all the new ideas in the world will pass you by.