While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
AKIO MORITANever break another man’s rice bowl.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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Management of an industrial company must be giving targets to the engineers constantly; that may be the most important job management has in dealing with its engineers.
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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
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I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.
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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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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.
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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business.
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The public does not know what is possible. We do.
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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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I often say to my assistants, “Never trust anybody,” but what I mean is that you should never trust someone else to do a job exactly the way you would want it done.
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Once you have a staff of prepared, intelligent, and energetic people, the next step is to motivate them to be creative.
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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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