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.
AKIO MORITAWhile the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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I believe people work for satisfaction.
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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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To create a familylike feeling within the corporation, a feeling that employees and managers share the same fate.
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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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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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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Curiosity is the key to creativity.
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But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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I have always made it a point to know our employees, to visit every facility of our company, and to try to meet and know every single employee.
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Our plan is to lead the public with new products rather than ask them what kind of products they want.
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There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.
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The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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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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(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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