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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
— 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
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.
— Akio Morita
We don't believe in market research for a new product unknown to the public. So we never do any.
— Akio Morita
We want to keep the company healthy and its employees happy, and we want to keep them on the job and productive.
— Akio Morita
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.
— Akio Morita
I believe one of the reasons we went through such a remarkable growth period was that we had this atmosphere of free discussion.
— Akio Morita
Don't be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.
— Akio Morita
To gain profit is important, but you must invest to build up assets that you can cash in in the future.
— Akio Morita
Once you have a staff of prepared, intelligent, and energetic people, the next step is to motivate them to be creative.
— Akio Morita
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.
— Akio Morita
You can be totally rational with a machine. But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
— Akio Morita
The public does not know what is possible. We do.
— Akio Morita
We want everybody to have the best facilities in which to work, but we do not believe in posh and impressive private offices.
— 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
Our plan is to lead the public with new products rather than ask them what kind of products they want,
— Akio Morita
curiosity is the key to creativity
— Akio Morita
Advertising and promotion alone will not sustain a bad product or a product that is not right for the times.
— Akio Morita
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.
— Akio Morita
Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period, it's difficult to see new projects to fruition.
— Akio Morita
While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
— Akio Morita
Never break another man's rice bowl.
— Akio Morita
My chief job is to constantly stir or rekindle the curiosity of people that gets driven out by bureaucracy and formal schooling systems.
— Akio Morita
More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.
— Akio Morita
If you don't want Japan to buy it, don't sell it.
— Akio Morita
Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.
— 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
There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.
— Akio Morita
Executives of the company must have the necessary qualities to direct the personnel by showing them the way to do things.
— Akio Morita
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
All you need is the best product in the world, the most efficient production in the world and global marketing.
— Akio Morita
Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
— Akio Morita
I believe people work for satisfaction.
— Akio Morita