Akio Morita
Akio Morita
Akio Moritawas a Japanese businessman and co-founder of Sony along with Masaru Ibuka...
NationalityJapanese
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth26 January 1921
CountryJapan
responsibility sacrifice risk
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. Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
creating united-states lawyer
While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
believe office want
We want everybody to have the best facilities in which to work, but we do not believe in posh and impressive private offices.
real people trying
More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.
attitude different seems
Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
business sure-thing
The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
jobs mean done
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.
moving people may
In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues. If you trust your colleague today, he may be your competitor tomorrow, because people frequently move from one company to another.
japan management concern
Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
secret ingredients responsible
There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.
creativity example apollo
My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target. The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
creativity technology self
There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing. To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
relationship leadership responsibility
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.
jobs mistake mean
The remarkable thing about management is that a manager can go on for years making mistakes that nobody is aware of, which means that management can be a kind of a con job.