Only with these three kinds of creativity - technology, product planning, and marketing - can the public receive the benefit of a new technology. - Akio Morita

We made a completely new kind of transistor (the NPN BJT, and in our development work, our researcher, Leo Esaki, demonstrated the electron tunneling effect, which led to the development of the tunnel diode for which he was awarded a Nobel Prize seventeen years later, after he had joined IBM.

In all my years in business I can recall very few people I have wanted to fire for making mistakes.

Executives of the company must have the necessary qualities to direct the personnel by showing them the way to do things.