There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.
AKIO MORITAIf you trust your colleague today, he may be your competitor tomorrow, because people frequently move from one company to another.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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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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But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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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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Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.
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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.
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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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But make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.
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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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If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
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In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues.
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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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We treat employees as a member of the family.
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Curiosity is the key to creativity.
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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 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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