If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell it.
AKIO MORITAWe want to keep the company healthy and its employees happy, and we want to keep them on the job and productive.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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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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And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.
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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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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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But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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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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Don’t do market research.
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Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period.
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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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Curiosity is the key to creativity.
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I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.
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We treat employees as a member of the family.
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It’s difficult to see new projects to fruition.
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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