Occupation: Businessman Birth: January 26, 1921 Death: October 3, 1999
Management of an industrial company must be giving targets to the engineers constantly; that may be the most important job management has in dealing ….
In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues. If you trust your colleague today, he may be your competitor tomorrow, because ….
There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing. To have any one of these without the others is self de….
The most important mission for a Japanese manager is to develop a healthy relationship with his employees, to create a familylike feeling within the ….
Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable..
More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods..
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 ….
The company must not throw money away on huge bonuses for executives or other frivolities but must share its fate with the workers..
The public does not know what is possible. We do..
Americans make money by playing `money games,' namely mergers, acquisitions, by simply moving money back and forth ... instead of creating and produc….
Our plan is to lead the public with new products rather than ask them what kind of products they want..
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..
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 deci….
We want to keep the company healthy and its employees happy, and we want to keep them on the job and productive..
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 ….
There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies..
Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period, it's difficult to see new projects to fruition..
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..
We want everybody to have the best facilities in which to work, but we do not believe in posh and impressive private offices..
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 State….
All you need is the best product in the world, the most efficient production in the world and global marketing..