Akio Morita

"...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 be a kind of a con job."

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

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

"To gain profit is important, but you must invest to build up assets that you can cash in in the future."

"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."

"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…"

"I believe one of the reasons we went through such a remarkable growth period was that we had this atmosphere of free discussion."

"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…"