Never break another man’s rice bowl.
AKIO MORITAExecutives of the company must have the necessary qualities to direct the personnel by showing them the way to do things.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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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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I believe it is a big mistake to think that money is the only way to compensate a person for his work.
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Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
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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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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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We don’t believe in market research for a new product unknown to the public. So we never do any.
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People need money, but they also want to be happy in their work and proud of it.
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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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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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The public does not know what is possible. We do.
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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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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But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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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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