Our plan is to lead the public with new products rather than ask them what kind of products they want.
AKIO MORITAOur plan is to lead the public with new products rather than ask them what kind of products they want.
AKIO MORITAEvery action analysed and every responsibility assigned by an organisation chart.
AKIO MORITAAll you need is the best product in the world, the most efficient production in the world and global marketing.
AKIO MORITAA company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
AKIO MORITAExecutives of the company must have the necessary qualities to direct the personnel by showing them the way to do things.
AKIO MORITAAmerica looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
AKIO MORITATo create a familylike feeling within the corporation, a feeling that employees and managers share the same fate.
AKIO MORITAIn the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues.
AKIO MORITABut make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.
AKIO MORITAJapanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
AKIO MORITAI 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.
AKIO MORITAIt has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony – and in service.
AKIO MORITAWhen I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
AKIO MORITADon’t do market research.
AKIO MORITAI believe people work for satisfaction.
AKIO MORITAThe “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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