A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
AKIO MORITAPeople need money, but they also want to be happy in their work and proud of it.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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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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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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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.
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We want to keep the company healthy and its employees happy, and we want to keep them on the job and productive.
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If you trust your colleague today, he may be your competitor tomorrow, because people frequently move from one company to another.
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Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.
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My concept is that anybody has creative ability, but very few people know how to use it.
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If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
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There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing.
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The remarkable thing about management is that a manager can go on for years making mistakes that nobody is aware of, which means that management can be a kind of a con job.
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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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We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business.
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