18 Quotes by Konosuke Matsushita

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.

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

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.

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.

Anything worth doing is worth 100%.

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.

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

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.

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.