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.
AKIO MORITAEmployees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
More Akio Morita Quotes
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There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing.
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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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The company must not throw money away on huge bonuses for executives or other frivolities but must share its fate with the workers.
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Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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Curiosity is the key to creativity.
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To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
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Every action analysed and every responsibility assigned by an organisation chart.
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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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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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(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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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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I often say to my assistants, “Never trust anybody,” but what I mean is that you should never trust someone else to do a job exactly the way you would want it done.
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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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