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.
AKIO MORITA(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.
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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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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Never break another man’s rice bowl.
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But make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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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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To gain profit is important, but you must invest to build up assets that you can cash in in the future.
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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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It’s difficult to see new projects to fruition.
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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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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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If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell it.
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If we do our best and make efforts, a peaceful and great future will become ours without fail.
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And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.
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My concept is that anybody has creative ability, but very few people know how to use it.
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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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We treat employees as a member of the family.
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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues.
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All you need is the best product in the world, the most efficient production in the world and global marketing.
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There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.
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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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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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Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
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The remarkable thing about management is that a manager can go on for years making mistakes that nobody is aware of, which means that management can be a kind of a con job.
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