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 MORITABut if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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To gain profit is important, but you must invest to build up assets that you can cash in in the future.
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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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In the long run, no matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty.
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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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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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Advertising and promotion alone will not sustain a bad product or a product that is not right for the times.
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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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I believe it is a big mistake to think that money is the only way to compensate a person for his work.
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We want everybody to have the best facilities in which to work, but we do not believe in posh and impressive private offices.
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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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The public does not know what is possible. We do.
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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
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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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Of course we have to make a profit, but we have to make a profit over the long haul, not just the short term, and that means we must keep investing in research and development.
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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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