To create a familylike feeling within the corporation, a feeling that employees and managers share the same fate.
AKIO MORITAWithout an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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I believe one of the reasons we went through such a remarkable growth period was that we had this atmosphere of free discussion.
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The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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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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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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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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And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.
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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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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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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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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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Advertising and promotion alone will not sustain a bad product or a product that is not right for the times.
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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