When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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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We treat employees as a member of the family.
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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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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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My concept is that anybody has creative ability, but very few people know how to use it.
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There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing.
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I consider it my job to nurture the creativity of the people I work with because at Sony we know that a terrific idea is more likely to happen in an open, free and trusting atmosphere than when everything is calculated.
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Never break another man’s rice bowl.
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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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There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.
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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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Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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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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Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.
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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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