Advertising and promotion alone will not sustain a bad product or a product that is not right for the times.
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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Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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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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Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.
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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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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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The most important mission for a Japanese manager is to develop a healthy relationship with his employees.
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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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(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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The important thing in my view is not to pin the blame for a mistake on somebody, but rather to find out what caused the mistake.
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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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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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But make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.
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There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing.
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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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