To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
AKIO MORITAI believe it is a big mistake to think that money is the only way to compensate a person for his work.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell it.
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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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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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It’s difficult to see new projects to fruition.
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Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.
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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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We want to keep the company healthy and its employees happy, and we want to keep them on the job and productive.
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It has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony – and in service.
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Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
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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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But make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.
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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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I often say to my assistants, “Never trust anybody,” but what I mean is that you should never trust someone else to do a job exactly the way you would want it done.
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