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
people understanding machines
You can be totally rational with a machine. But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
business doe knows
The public does not know what is possible. We do.
ideas way world
If you go through life convinced that your way is always best, all the new ideas in the world will pass you by.
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.
japan management concern
Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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.
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.
secret ingredients responsible
There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.
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.
country ideas impact
The "patron saint" of Japanese quality control, ironically, is an American named W. Edwards Deming, who was virtually unknown in his own country until his ideas of quality control began to make such a big impact on Japanese companies.
business sure-thing
The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
attitude different seems
Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
real people trying
More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.