I believe it is a big mistake to think that money is the only way to compensate a person for his work.
AKIO MORITAIf we face recession, we should not lay off employees; the company should sacrifice a profit. It’s management’s risk and management’s responsibility.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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We treat employees as a member of the family.
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If you trust your colleague today, he may be your competitor tomorrow, because people frequently move from one company to another.
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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.
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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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Curiosity is the key to creativity.
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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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It’s difficult to see new projects to fruition.
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My concept is that anybody has creative ability, but very few people know how to use it.
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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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From a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people’s inborn creativity.
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(Japanese Government believes that if you have a big laboratory with all the latest equipment and good funding it will automatically lead to creativity. It doesn’t work that way.
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Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
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There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing.
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I believe people work for satisfaction.
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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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