We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business.
AKIO MORITATo create a familylike feeling within the corporation, a feeling that employees and managers share the same fate.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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I have always made it a point to know our employees, to visit every facility of our company, and to try to meet and know every single employee.
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Americans make money by playing `money games,’ namely mergers, acquisitions, by simply moving money back and forth … instead of creating and producing goods with some actual value.
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We treat employees as a member of the family.
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It has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony – and in service.
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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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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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The most important mission for a Japanese manager is to develop a healthy relationship with his employees.
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The public does not know what is possible. We do.
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In the long run, no matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty.
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In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues.
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Don’t do market research.
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Management of an industrial company must be giving targets to the engineers constantly; that may be the most important job management has in dealing with its engineers.
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Once you have a staff of prepared, intelligent, and energetic people, the next step is to motivate them to be creative.
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If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell it.
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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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