Akio Morita: Making

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“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.”

Akio Morita

Source: Made in Japan (1986), p. 156.

“The American system of management, in my opinion, also relies too much on outsiders to help make business decisions., and this is because of the insecurity that American decision makers feel in their jobs, as compared with most top Japanese corporate executives.”

Akio Morita

Source: Made in Japan (1986), p. 178.

Feeling , Business , Decision , Help

“The investor and the employee are in the same position, but sometimes the employee is more important, because he will be there a long time whereas an investor will often get in and out on a whim in order to make a profit.”

Akio Morita

Source: Made in Japan (1986), p. 143.

Time

“…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.”

Akio Morita

Source: Made in Japan (1986), p. 154.

“We tell our young managers: 'Don't be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.”

Akio Morita

Akio Morita, cited in: Nick Lyons (1976) The Sony vision. p. 101.

“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.”

Akio Morita

Source: Made in Japan (1986), p. 165.

Idea , Country

“The concept of lifetime employment arose when Japanese managers and employees both realized that they had much in common and that they had to make some long-range plans.”

Akio Morita

Source: Made in Japan (1986), p. 137.

“The effect of three things - the new laws, the revision of the tax system, and the elimination of the zaibatsu conglomerates - was to make Japan an egalitarian society for the first time.”

Akio Morita

Source: Made in Japan (1986), p. 135.

Law , Time

“In all my years in business I can recall very few people I have wanted to fire for making mistakes.”

Akio Morita

Source: Made in Japan (1986), p. 151.

People , Business