A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
AKIO MORITAIt has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony – and in service.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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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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If you trust your colleague today, he may be your competitor tomorrow, because people frequently move from one company to another.
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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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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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Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.
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Advertising and promotion alone will not sustain a bad product or a product that is not right for the times.
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We treat employees as a member of the family.
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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.
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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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My chief job is to constantly stir or rekindle the curiosity of people that gets driven out by bureaucracy and formal schooling systems.
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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 feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.
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Of course we have to make a profit, but we have to make a profit over the long haul, not just the short term, and that means we must keep investing in research and development.
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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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