While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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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If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell it.
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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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Never break another man’s rice bowl.
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There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing.
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It has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony – and in service.
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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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I believe people work for satisfaction.
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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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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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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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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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The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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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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The public does not know what is possible. We do.
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To create a familylike feeling within the corporation, a feeling that employees and managers share the same fate.
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