Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
AKIO MORITAThe company must not throw money away on huge bonuses for executives or other frivolities but must share its fate with the workers.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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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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Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.
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I knew we needed a weapon to break through to the US market, and it had to be something different, something that nobody else was making.
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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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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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(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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To create a familylike feeling within the corporation, a feeling that employees and managers share the same fate.
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The important thing in my view is not to pin the blame for a mistake on somebody, but rather to find out what caused the mistake.
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It’s difficult to see new projects to fruition.
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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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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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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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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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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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Never break another man’s rice bowl.
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