Konosuke Matsushita Quotes
106 Konosuke Matsushita Quotes
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Workers must submit to many tests and difficult discipline before they can be considered mature and trustworthy. One of the most effective tests of workers’ dedication and resourcefulness is imposed when their company encounters financial difficulties and must pull itself out of the crisis.
Konosuke Matsushita
The greatest abundance of material wealth is worthless unless you enjoy fulfillment and a purpose in living.
Konosuke Matsushita
Spiritual peace and material abundance are as inseparable as the two wheels of a cart.
Konosuke Matsushita
Failures in business are caused by self-centeredness, lack of righteousness, ignorance of the sacred mission of business, treating business as a short-sighted profit-making endeavor, and clinging to outmoded practices.
Konosuke Matsushita
No matter how valuable a product may be, it can be supplied to consumers at an extremely low price if it is manufactured in large volume. And when poverty is eliminated, so will be the stresses and grief that derive from it.
Konosuke Matsushita
The most important thing is that we enjoy happiness to the full in our own lives and at the same time strive for the benefit of the generations that are to follow… every effort you make will be suitably rewarded.
Konosuke Matsushita
When a group seeks success, its leader should establish ideas and objectives toward which the whole group must make step-by-step efforts, each sure and strong.
Konosuke Matsushita
No matter how many years I collect, I continue to be challenged by each new development we face. It seems to me that the search for the ideal human society and the best in human potential is an unending and eternally fascinating journey.
Konosuke Matsushita
Man should be to enjoy peace, happiness, and prosperity. If he has not already achieved these things, it is because he has not had a correct understanding of his own nature.
Konosuke Matsushita
A company and its labor union are like the wheels of a cart, so closely connected that growth in one must be matched by an equal expansion in the other if the whole enterprise is to maintain its stability. To make mutual growth possible, it is necessary for each side not only to express itself but also to listen to the views advanced by the other. At times, the two must put differences aside and cooperate in a spirit of harmony.
Konosuke Matsushita
A businessman must cultivate within himself a sense of economic rationality in all aspects of business.
Konosuke Matsushita
Employees should always remember the golden rule of business: to maximize earnings and minimize spending.
Konosuke Matsushita
Production is the very basis of recovery.
Konosuke Matsushita
[On the conclusion of World War II to Matsushita employees] No matter how difficult the circumstances from which we suffer, we must make one more resolute effort to resume production. I ask you all to grit your teeth and stay on your jobs; I firmly believe that your brave perseverance will be rewarded.
Konosuke Matsushita
Toward the end of the war the military had demanded that we put to use our experience in mass production of radios to manufacture wooden ships and airplanes.
Konosuke Matsushita
What is humanity? The poverty, despair, and turmoil following the war, the tragedies caused by the conflict – these are not natural phenomena; they are conditions that people have brought upon themselves. So, if one really wants to rid the earth of such misery, the most important subject to study is human nature.
Konosuke Matsushita
[On building a ‘dam’, an extra safety net in a company that provides for lean times] If you make up your mind to establish a ‘dam’, you can do it… You don’t need more profits; you need more gumption.
Konosuke Matsushita
If you are an artist who is allowed to paint only the themes assigned by your teacher, using only those techniques he approves of, you may never have the chance to show your own distinctive talents or produce a work that is free and truly creative… I feel that the same principles governs the talents of a businessman. He needs an environment, just as does an artist, in which he can do masterful work. Credit liberalization was a necessary step in creating such an environment.
Konosuke Matsushita
Management produces something from nothing through the constant exercise of human ingenuity.
Konosuke Matsushita
[At the age of seventy-two] If only I could, I would give up everything to be young like you are once again. It was not just physical youth that I longed for. I wanted to feel the limitless hope, to pursue lofty ideals with the energy of youth.
Konosuke Matsushita
Youth is not a time of life – it is a state of mind.
Konosuke Matsushita
Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years; people grow old only by deserting their ideals.
Konosuke Matsushita
Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
Konosuke Matsushita
Today’s defeat is tomorrow’s victory.
Konosuke Matsushita
The only way to move forward is to take one step at a time.
Konosuke Matsushita
Just take the right path and put one foot ahead of the other. There is no need for tactics or strategies; proceed one step at a time, and eventually you will reach your destination.
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