We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business.
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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Curiosity is the key to creativity.
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All you need is the best product in the world, the most efficient production in the world and global marketing.
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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The company must not throw money away on huge bonuses for executives or other frivolities but must share its fate with the workers.
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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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And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.
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Advertising and promotion alone will not sustain a bad product or a product that is not right for the times.
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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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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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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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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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I believe people work for satisfaction.
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Never break another man’s rice bowl.
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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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