If you go through life convinced that your way is always best, all the new ideas in the world will pass you by.
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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In the long run, no matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty.
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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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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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I often say to my assistants, “Never trust anybody,” but what I mean is that you should never trust someone else to do a job exactly the way you would want it done.
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I believe people work for satisfaction.
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More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.
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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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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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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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To create a familylike feeling within the corporation, a feeling that employees and managers share the same fate.
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I knew we needed a weapon to break through to the US market, and it had to be something different, something that nobody else was making.
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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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If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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