Matsushita 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. The engine of capitalist patriarchy runs on the dirty fuel of women's shame.

Laurie Penny

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

Konosuke Matsushita

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

Konosuke Matsushita

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

Konosuke Matsushita

#6. Circumspection is not one of my better, favorite conditions, really.

Robert Plant

#7. Anything worth doing is worth 100%.

Konosuke Matsushita

#8. Why did you leave the condo anyway? Didn't Black tell you to stay put?" "Stay put? I'm not a dog.

Tabatha Vargo

#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. You have family", Bob said. "You have a wife who hates you. Kids who are furious with you. A brother and sister who make you insane. And a nephew who used to be kind of a drip but apparently is not so much of a drip now. That's called family".

Elizabeth Strout

#11. There's no scientist I know who wouldn't rather be a charlatan. And when circumstances allow you to be both, why it's great fun!

Edwin Land

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. We are as near to heaven by sea as by land.

Humphrey Gilbert

#16. 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

#17. It seems easier to respond to our enthusiasms by trading in facts than by investigating the more naive question of how and why we have been moved

Alain De Botton

#18. I have a hard time getting past the day without the nap, so the nap is a must.

Mohnish Pabrai

#19. Patch grief with proverbs.

William Shakespeare

#20. You need to drop down. Nobody is perfect, nobody is superhero.

Jet Li

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

Konosuke Matsushita

#22. As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.

Charles Baudelaire

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

Konosuke Matsushita

#24. The doctor said the wound was superficial. The old cob didn't know what "superficial" meant, but it sounded serious.

E.B. White

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

Konosuke Matsushita

#26. In the past 30 years, officials of the Iranian regime and its apologists have labeled criticism, especially with regard to women's rights, as anti-Islamic and pro-Western, justifying its brutalities by ascribing them to Islam and Iran's culture.

Azar Nafisi

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. Concentration of the mind is in a way common to both Knowledge and Yoga. Yoga aims at union of the individual with the universal, the Reality. This Reality cannot be new. It must exist even now, and it does exist.

Ramana Maharshi

#32. 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

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

Konosuke Matsushita