Top 15 Akio Morita Quotes

You can be totally rational with a machine. But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.

...the company must not throw money away on huge bonuses for executives or other frivolities but must share its fate with the workers.

I believe people work for satisfaction.

..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.

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

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

Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.

...the differences between U.S. and Japanese companies go beyond the cultural.

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.

I have had my difficulties with the American legal system, and so I feel qualified to talk about it.

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.

I often say to my assistants, "Never trust anybody," but what I mean is that you should never trust someone else to do a job exactly the way you would want it done.

...if you have so many lawyers, they have to find business, which sometimes they have to create. Sometimes nonsensical lawsuits are generated by lawyers. In this country (the United States everybody sues everybody.

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

...without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period, it's difficult to see new projects to fruition.