72 Quotes by Akio Morita

My chief job is to constantly stir or rekindle the curiosity of people that gets driven out by bureaucracy and formal schooling systems.

America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.

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.

We don't believe in market research for a new product unknown to the public. So we never do any.

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.

If we face recession, we should not lay off employees; the company should sacrifice a profit. It's management's risk and management's responsibility. Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?

While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.

We want everybody to have the best facilities in which to work, but we do not believe in posh and impressive private offices.

More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.