Quote

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.

Akio Morita

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Akio Morita
Age: 78 †
Born: 1921
Born: January 26
Died: 1999
Died: October 3
Businessman
Businessperson
Engineer
Physicist
States
Tomorrow
Today
Move
Colleague
May
Trust
Businessmen
People
Company
Competitor
United
Competitors
Moving
Businessman
Often
Colleagues
Another
Frequently

More quotes by Akio Morita

Image
You can be totally rational with a machine. But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
Akio Morita
Image
Never break another man's rice bowl.
Akio Morita
Image
I believe people work for satisfaction.
Akio Morita
Image
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.
Akio Morita
Image
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.
Akio Morita
Image
But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.
Akio Morita
Image
The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
Akio Morita
Image
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.
Akio Morita
Image
Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
Akio Morita
Image
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.
Akio Morita
Image
My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
Akio Morita
Image
Advertising and promotion alone will not sustain a bad product or a product that is not right for the times.
Akio Morita
Image
To gain profit is important, but you must invest to build up assets that you can cash in in the future.
Akio Morita
Image
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
Image
We want everybody to have the best facilities in which to work, but we do not believe in posh and impressive private offices.
Akio Morita
Image
Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period, it's difficult to see new projects to fruition.
Akio Morita
Image
If you don't want Japan to buy it, don't sell it.
Akio Morita
Image
We want to keep the company healthy and its employees happy, and we want to keep them on the job and productive.
Akio Morita
Image
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.
Akio Morita
Image
There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.
Akio Morita