Quote

Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.

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
Attitude
American
Seems
Different
Critically
Work
Attitudes
Japanese
Toward
Seem

More quotes by Akio Morita

Image
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
Image
My chief job is to constantly stir or rekindle the curiosity of people that gets driven out by bureaucracy and formal schooling systems.
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
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.
Akio Morita
Image
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.
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
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
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
Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.
Akio Morita
Image
If you go through life convinced that your way is always best, all the new ideas in the world will pass you by.
Akio Morita
Image
There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.
Akio Morita
Image
More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.
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
Executives of the company must have the necessary qualities to direct the personnel by showing them the way to do things.
Akio Morita
Image
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
Image
I believe it is a big mistake to think that money is the only way to compensate a person for his work. People need money, but they also want to be happy in their work and proud of it.
Akio Morita
Image
Never break another man's rice bowl.
Akio Morita
Image
I knew we needed a weapon to break through to the US market, and it had to be something different, something that nobody else was making.
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 treat employees as a member of the family. If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
Akio Morita