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
school past records
I established the rule that once we hire an employee, his school records are a matter of the past and are no longer used to evaluate his work or decide on his promotion.
trying made employee
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.
jobs creativity responsibility
I consider it my job to nurture the creativity of the people I work with because at Sony we know that a terrific idea is more likely to happen in an open, free and trusting atmosphere than when everything is calculated, every action analysed and every responsibility assigned by an organisation chart.
creativity people creative
From a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people's inborn creativity. My concept is that anybody has creative ability, but very few people know how to use it.
mistake views important
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.
moving games creating
Americans make money by playing `money games,' namely mergers, acquisitions, by simply moving money back and forth ... instead of creating and producing goods with some actual value.
fate bonus share
the company must not throw money away on huge bonuses for executives or other frivolities but must share its fate with the workers.
believe people satisfaction
I believe people work for satisfaction.
men break rice
Never break another man's rice bowl.
education jobs people
My chief job is to constantly stir or rekindle the curiosity of people that gets driven out by bureaucracy and formal schooling systems.
years america japan
America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
effort peaceful succeed
If we do our best and make efforts, a peaceful and great future will become ours without fail. Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.
believe research new-products
We don't believe in market research for a new product unknown to the public. So we never do any.
children growing-up learning
We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business. And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.