The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
AKIO MORITAThe “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.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business.
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If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell it.
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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart’s desire their technological capacity.
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I consider it my job to nurture the creativity of the people I work with because at Sony we know that a terrific idea is more likely to happen in an open, free and trusting atmosphere than when everything is calculated.
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Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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We treat employees as a member of the family.
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Management of an industrial company must be giving targets to the engineers constantly; that may be the most important job management has in dealing with its engineers.
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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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People need money, but they also want to be happy in their work and proud of it.
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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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From a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people’s inborn creativity.
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