Konosuke Quotes

#1. 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

#2. After-sales service is more important than assistance before sales. It is through such service that one gets permanent customers.

Konosuke Matsushita

#3. An object may seem static to you and to me, but every bit of it is in continuous movement, shaking, shivering, and rotating.

Girdhar Joshi

#4. 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

#5. Why may we not be in the universe, as our dogs and cats are in our drawingrooms and libraries?

William James

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. Anything worth doing is worth 100%.

Konosuke Matsushita

#11. I am not worthy." he said softly.
"Damn fucking straight," someone growled.

J.R. Ward

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

Konosuke Matsushita

#13. Gratitude leads to happiness. Conversely, lack of gratitude is the curse of the unhappy.

Konosuke Matsushita

#14. A person who can create ideas worthy of note is a person who has learned much from others.

Konosuke Matsushita

#15. To the extent that clutter gets in the way of living in the kind of environment we'd like to be living in and leaves us feeling stressed or remiss, we can all improve our relationships to our possessions.

Robin Zasio

#16. I feel enough distance from the person I used to be. I'm not ashamed about my life anymore, because I've learnt from it.

Natalie Cole

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

Konosuke Matsushita

#18. Better service for the customer is for the good of the public, and this is the true purpose of enterprise.

Konosuke Matsushita

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. Politics is tricky, especially in Jamaica. There are two parties, JLP [Jamaica Labour Party] and PNP [People's National Party], and if I went for one, I would upset supporters of the other. I stay as far from politics as I can.

Usain Bolt

#23. 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

#24. In the midst of excitement, grief, joy, and solitude, I remind myself every moment that the sole mission of my life is to find 'the ultimate questioner' - that unimaginable who has put me in this madness to answer an unanswerable question.

Kedar Joshi

#25. Company's vision must be driven by the aspirations of its customers.

Konosuke Matsushita