The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
AKIO MORITAThere is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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If we do our best and make efforts, a peaceful and great future will become ours without fail.
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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell it.
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If we face recession, we should not lay off employees; the company should sacrifice a profit. It’s management’s risk and management’s responsibility.
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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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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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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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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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I established the rule that once we hire an employee, his school records are a matter of the past and are no longer used to evaluate his work or decide on his promotion.
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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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I believe one of the reasons we went through such a remarkable growth period was that we had this atmosphere of free discussion.
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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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And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.
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In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues.
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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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