While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
AKIO MORITAYour business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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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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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It’s difficult to see new projects to fruition.
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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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Of course we have to make a profit, but we have to make a profit over the long haul, not just the short term, and that means we must keep investing in research and development.
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There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing.
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Carefully watch how people live, get an intuitive sense as to what they might want and then go with it.
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Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
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To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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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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If we face recession, we should not lay off employees; the company should sacrifice a profit. It’s management’s risk and management’s responsibility.
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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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