Matsushita Quotes & Sayings

You may be a well-educated, clever and virtuous person, but those qualities will not necessarily make you a successful businessman. You must give your best to each and every task you take on, and reflect on your performance with an honest and unprejudiced eye. — Konosuke Matsushita

Anything worth doing is worth 100%. — Konosuke Matsushita

Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Music is everything to me. Without music, I wouldnt be here in America now,
and I would have been a completely different person. It made me who I am today. — Yuya Matsushita

Even if the initial home-base advantage is hard to sustain, a global strategy can contribute to supplementing and upgrading it. A good example is in consumer electronics, where Matsushita, Sanyo, Sharp, and other Japanese firms initially competed on cost in selling simply designed, portable televisions. As they began penetrating foreign markets, they gained economies of scale and further reduced cost by moving down the learning curve. Worldwide volume then helped to support aggressive investments in marketing, new production equipment, and R&D and to achieve proprietary technology. — Anonymous

Company's vision must be driven by the aspirations of its customers. — Konosuke Matsushita

No matter how deep a study you make. What you really have to rely on is your own intuition and when it comes down to it, you really don't know what's going to happen until you do it. — Konosuke Matsushita

Possessing material comforts in no way guarantees happiness. Only spiritual wealth can bring true true happiness. — Konosuke Matsushita

If we cannot make a profit, that means we are committing a sort of crime against society. We take society's capital, we take their people, we take their materials, yet without a good profit, we are using precious resources that could be better used elsewhere. — Konosuke Matsushita

The "problem" is that Comic-Con is so damned successful. People who are there seem to have a wonderful time. The very size of it makes it exciting. Wherever you look, there's something exciting. The attendees are always looking around for a familiar face. It's either 'There's a movie star!' Or, 'There's a TV star!' Or, 'There's the guy who drew the Green Lantern!' It means so much to the fans. It makes them feel like they're where it's happening. It's like Woodstock. — Stan Lee

Better service for the customer is for the good of the public, and this is the true purpose of enterprise. — Konosuke Matsushita

It looks as if British democracy died a few years ago, and nobody noticed. — Steve Merrick

Most of my stories, if not all of them, have some basis in real life. That's the kind of fiction I'm most interested in. I suppose that's one reason I don't have much respect for fiction that seems to be game playing. — Raymond Carver

After-sales service is more important than assistance before sales. It is through such service that one gets permanent customers. — Konosuke Matsushita

The main purpose of production is to manufacture items of good quality for daily use in abundant supply, thereby enhancing and improving the life for everyone and it is this goal that I am dedicated. — Konosuke Matsushita

I keep mementos from everything I've done. I've got my cab driver's license from 'Happiness.' I've got a pair of glasses and a belt buckle from playing John Lennon. I've got a pair of sunglasses from playing Andy Warhol ... It's all in a box in the garage. — Jared Harris

Gratitude leads to happiness. Conversely, lack of gratitude is the curse of the unhappy. — Konosuke Matsushita

It's a very rich brew that's in your psyche by the time you're in your 60s, and I think that's rather interesting. It makes you feel you've lived a very long life; it's like going on holiday to three different cities rather than spending two weeks in Lisbon. You look back on the holiday, and you seem to have been away forever. — Deborah Moggach

I'm not sure plays tell people anything. I think plays include an audience in an experience that is happening in that moment, and that's the specialness. What people take away has almost as much to do with what they bring as what we do. — Anna D. Shapiro

Konosuke Matsushita was a visionary entrepreneur. He started working very young as a teenager, and he eventually created Panasonic to become a truly global company. — Tadashi Yanai

A person who sins neither in thought nor deed, and is fair and just, gains enormous courage and strength. As a leader, you need courage born of integrity in order to be capable of powerful leadership. To achieve this courage, you must search your heart, and make sure your conscience is clear and your behavior is beyond reproach. — Konosuke Matsushita

In order to do a good job a person must like what he or she is doing ... 'Love thy work', and you will be successful ... If you do things just because you have to, then you will never enjoy work. Nor will you do a good job if you do it simply out of a sense of duty. stress is often a by-product of such passive or negative attitudes toward work. Paradoxically as it may sound, love of work can be the best medicine for workaholism. — Konosuke Matsushita

Things sure are easy to get done when you're old and everyone thinks you're senile. — Carolyn Brown

Let's face it - no matter how independent you are, you still have this nagging need to be desired. — Allison Anders

A natural response to a natural phenomenon -that is the secret of success in business and management. You will always win if you rely on common sense. — Konosuke Matsushita

We are going to win and the industrial West is going to lose out; there's not much you can do about it because the reasons for your failure are within yourselves. — Konosuke Matsushita

America was born in outrageous ambition, so bold as to be improbable. The deprived, the oppressed, the powerless from all over the globe came here with little more than the desire to realize themselves. — Mario Cuomo

It had been the first kiss for both of them, and to this day, when Dean kissed a woman, he longed for the smell of the sea. — Kristin Hannah

A person who can create ideas worthy of note is a person who has learned much from others. — Konosuke Matsushita

We are apt to think that our ideas are the creation of our own wisdom but the truth is that they are the result of the experience through outside contact. — Konosuke Matsushita

It is a kind of law of nature. The goal one aims for can rarely be reached by a direct road. — Konosuke Matsushita

Americans honor and respect each other's faith, and we honor those that choose to have no faith. — James Lankford

Our social mission as a manufacturer is only realized when products reach, are used by, and satisfy the customer ... We need to take the customer's skin temperature daily. — Konosuke Matsushita

Recognizing our responsibilities as industrialists, we will devote ourselves to the progress and development of society and the well-being of people through our business activities, thereby enhancing the quality of life throughout the world. — Konosuke Matsushita

There's no time to waste. Every day, there needs to be movement on something. — Desiree Rogers