Akio Morita. Akio Morita (盛田昭夫, January 26, 1921 – October 3, 1999) was a Japanese businessman and co-founder of the Sony Corporation. . The best quotations and sayings about business with comments.
We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.
Don't be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.
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.
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.
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.
A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
The most important mission for a Japanese manager is to develop a healthy relationship with his employees, to create a familylike feeling within the corporation, a feeling that employees and managers share the same fate.
Of course we have to make a profit, but we have to make a profit over the long haul, not just the short term, and that means we must keep investing in research and development - it has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony - and in service.
One of the reasons we went through such a remarkable growth period was that we had this atmosphere of free discussion.
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.
People do not work just for money and that if you are trying to motivate, money is not the most effective tool.
We tell our managers, 'Don't be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.'