Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
AKIO MORITAIf you go through life convinced that your way is always best, all the new ideas in the world will pass you by.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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To gain profit is important, but you must invest to build up assets that you can cash in in the future.
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The company must not throw money away on huge bonuses for executives or other frivolities but must share its fate with the workers.
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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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We want everybody to have the best facilities in which to work, but we do not believe in posh and impressive private offices.
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The most important mission for a Japanese manager is to develop a healthy relationship with his employees.
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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
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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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There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing.
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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We don’t believe in market research for a new product unknown to the public. So we never do any.
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We treat employees as a member of the family.
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My chief job is to constantly stir or rekindle the curiosity of people that gets driven out by bureaucracy and formal schooling systems.
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If you go through life convinced that your way is always best, all the new ideas in the world will pass you by.
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The important thing in my view is not to pin the blame for a mistake on somebody, but rather to find out what caused the mistake.
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