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.
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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From a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people’s inborn creativity.
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Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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I believe people work for satisfaction.
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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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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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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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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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We treat employees as a member of the family.
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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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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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Curiosity is the key to creativity.
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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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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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