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.
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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Every action analysed and every responsibility assigned by an organisation chart.
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The remarkable thing about management is that a manager can go on for years making mistakes that nobody is aware of, which means that management can be a kind of a con 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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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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It’s difficult to see new projects to fruition.
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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 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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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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In the long run, no matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty.
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Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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It has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony – and in service.
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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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My concept is that anybody has creative ability, but very few people know how to use it.
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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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Executives of the company must have the necessary qualities to direct the personnel by showing them the way to do things.
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