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.
AKIO MORITAThe “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.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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Once you have a staff of prepared, intelligent, and energetic people, the next step is to motivate them to be creative.
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I consider it my job to nurture the creativity of the people I work with because at Sony we know that a terrific idea is more likely to happen in an open, free and trusting atmosphere than when everything is calculated.
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In the long run, no matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty.
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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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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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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 trust your colleague today, he may be your competitor tomorrow, because people frequently move from one company to another.
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Curiosity is the key to creativity.
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But make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.
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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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Americans make money by playing `money games,’ namely mergers, acquisitions, by simply moving money back and forth … instead of creating and producing goods with some actual value.
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I believe it is a big mistake to think that money is the only way to compensate a person for his work.
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Never break another man’s rice bowl.
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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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I knew we needed a weapon to break through to the US market, and it had to be something different, something that nobody else was making.
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