Akio Morita Quotes

Those who build great companies understand that the ultimate throttle on growth for any great company is not markets, or technology, or competition, or products. It is one thing above all others: the ability to get and keep enough of the right people.

A well-trained workforce is critical to small-business success. What I hear from business is that it's hard to find help that meets their needs.

What is Oracle? It's people. We rely on our HR department to build this organization, to help find those people, to help grow those people.

I think the most important reason for our success is that very early in our quest into globalisation, we invested in people - and we have done that consistently and particularly in the service business.

There is no way of making a business successful that can vie with the policy of promoting those who render exceptional service.

If I were running a company today, I would have one priority above all others: to acquire as many of the best people as I could. I'd put off everything else to fill my bus. Because things are going to come back. My flywheel is going to start to turn. And the single biggest constraint on the success of my organization is the ability to get and to hang on to enough of the right people.

A company's employees are its greatest asset and your people are your product

Every business tries to turn this year's success into next year's greater success. It's hard for me to see why Microsoft is sinful to do this. If it's a sin, then I hope all of Berkshire Hathaway's subsidiaries are sinners. Someone whose salary is paid by U.S.taxpayers is happy to dramatically weaken the one place where we're winning big?!

I want people to understand the amazing, positive way our software can make leisure time more enjoyable, and work and businesses more successful.

In general, the questions that are on our mind are the same questions that have been driving our work over the past decade. How do we bring order to this messy, unpredictable world of innovation? How can we dramatically improve the chances of creating a successful new-growth business? How can we do this again and again? More specifically, it has become very clear that the fundamental paradigms of market segmentation and branding are badly broken - and we're working on developing more useful theories for these dimensions of innovation.

When you think that it's too hard, remember that in the long run, doing the things that will make you successful is a lot easier than being unsuccessful

If you hate to lose, you do whatever you need to do to make sure you're business is successful.

If we get the right people in the right job we've won the game.

Of all the decisions an executive makes, none is as important as the decisions about people, because they determine the performance capacity of the organization.

Tend to the people, and they will tend to the business.

Be really picky with your hiring, and hire the absolute best people you possibly can. People are the most important component of almost every business, and attracting the best talent possible is going to make a huge difference.

All our businesses comprise of the BEST people money can buy. My policy is hire the best and pay them well

The companies that are successful, they start out to make meaning, not to make money.

Get the right people. Then no matter what all else you might do wrong after that, the people will save you. That's what management is all about.

I am a great believer that you need passion and energy to create a truly successful business.

Innovation and creativity are the juiciest parts of running a business.

At the beginning, you should only hire when you have a desperate need to.

No company, small or large, can win over the long run without energized employees who believe in the mission and understand how to achieve it.

Talent is our No.1 operating priority and our most important asset.