In the long run, no matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty.
AKIO MORITAIf we face recession, we should not lay off employees; the company should sacrifice a profit. It’s management’s risk and management’s responsibility.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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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 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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Americans make money by playing `money games,’ namely mergers, acquisitions, by simply moving money back and forth … instead of creating and producing goods with some actual value.
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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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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell it.
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Don’t do market research.
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The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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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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More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.
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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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Never break another man’s rice bowl.
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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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Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
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