To create a familylike feeling within the corporation, a feeling that employees and managers share the same fate.
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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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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We want everybody to have the best facilities in which to work, but we do not believe in posh and impressive private offices.
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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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I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.
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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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People need money, but they also want to be happy in their work and proud of it.
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More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.
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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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But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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Carefully watch how people live, get an intuitive sense as to what they might want and then go with it.
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Never break another man’s rice bowl.
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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart’s desire their technological capacity.
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