In the long run, no matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty, your business and its future… — Akio Morita Copy Share Image
You can be totally rational with a machine. But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat… — Akio Morita Copy Share Image
Once you have a staff of prepared, intelligent, and energetic people, the next step is to motivate them to be creative. — Akio Morita Copy Share Image
Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable. — Akio Morita Copy Share Image
More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods. — Akio Morita Copy Share Image
In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues. If you trust your colleague today, he may be your competitor… — Akio Morita Copy Share Image
From a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people's inborn creativity. My concept is that anybody has… — Akio Morita Copy Share Image
I consider it my job to nurture the creativity of the people I work with because at Sony we know that a… — Akio Morita Copy Share Image
I believe it is a big mistake to think that money is the only way to compensate a person for his work.… — Akio Morita Copy Share Image
My chief job is to constantly stir or rekindle the curiosity of people that gets driven out by bureaucracy and formal schooling… — Akio Morita Copy Share Image
Carefully watch how people live, get an intuitive sense as to what they might want and then go with it. Don’t do… — Akio Morita Copy Share Image
(Japanese Government believes that if you have a big laboratory with all the latest equipment and good funding it will automatically lead to creativity.… — Akio Morita Copy Share Image
Our plan is to lead the public with new products rather than ask them what kind of products they want. — Akio Morita Copy Share Image
More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods. — Akio Morita Copy Share Image
Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable. — Akio Morita Copy Share Image
In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues. If you trust your colleague today, he may be your competitor tomorrow, because… — Akio Morita Copy Share Image
I knew we needed a weapon to break through to the US market, and it had to be something different, something that nobody else… — Akio Morita Copy Share Image
If we do our best and make efforts, a peaceful and great future will become ours without fail. Whether we succeed or not depends… — Akio Morita Copy Share Image
Management of an industrial company must be giving targets to the engineers constantly; that may be the most important job management has in dealing… — Akio Morita Copy Share Image
The remarkable thing about management is that a manager can go on for years making mistakes that nobody is aware of, which means that… — Akio Morita Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
