Akio Morita Quotes, Country Quotes, Impact Quotes

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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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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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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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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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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There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing. To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.

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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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The most important mission for a Japanese manager is to develop a healthy relationship with his employees, to create a familylike feeling within the corporation, a feeling that employees and managers share the same fate.

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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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We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business. And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.

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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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I believe it is a big mistake to think that money is the only way to compensate a person for his work. People need money, but they also want to be happy in their work and proud of it.

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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target. The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.

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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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Carefully watch how people live, get an intuitive sense as to what they might want and then go with it. Don’t do market research.

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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 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, every action analysed and every responsibility assigned by an organisation chart.

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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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Curiosity is the key to creativity.

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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.

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