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.
AKIO MORITAYou can be totally rational with a machine.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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We don’t believe in market research for a new product unknown to the public. So we never do any.
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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
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Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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Never break another man’s rice bowl.
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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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To create a familylike feeling within the corporation, a feeling that employees and managers share the same fate.
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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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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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From a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people’s inborn creativity.
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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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Carefully watch how people live, get an intuitive sense as to what they might want and then go with it.
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If you go through life convinced that your way is always best, all the new ideas in the world will pass you by.
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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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