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 big impact on Japanese companies.
AKIO MORITAA company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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To create a familylike feeling within the corporation, a feeling that employees and managers share the same fate.
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If we do our best and make efforts, a peaceful and great future will become ours without fail.
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Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.
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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.
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And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.
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If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
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All you need is the best product in the world, the most efficient production in the world and global marketing.
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Our plan is to lead the public with new products rather than ask them what kind of products they want.
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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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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.
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Every action analysed and every responsibility assigned by an organisation chart.
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Once you have a staff of prepared, intelligent, and energetic people, the next step is to motivate them to be creative.
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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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In the long run, no matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty.
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