Matsushita Konosuke Quotes

Kōnosuke Matsushita was a Japanese industrialist who founded Panasonic, the largest Japanese consumer electronics company. To many Japanese, he is known as "the god of management". A biography of Matsushita's life called Matsushita Leadership was written by American business management specialist John Kotter in 1998.

✵ 27. November 1894 – 27. April 1989
Matsushita Konosuke photo
Matsushita Konosuke: 11   quotes 15   likes

Famous Matsushita Konosuke Quotes

“Sometimes the proposals are good; but one must be cautious of tempting offers that may not derive from the best intentions.”

Source: Quest for prosperity: the life of a Japanese industrialist. 1988, p. 58

“When it rains, you put up an umbrella. That is the secret of success in business and management.”

Kōnosuke Matsushita. Not for Bread Alone: A Business Ethos, a Management Ethic, 1984. p. 111

“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.”

Kōnosuke Matsushita in: Cherry blossoms and robotics, 1983; Cited in: John R. Schermerhorn (1993), Management for productivity, p. 170

“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.”

Kōnosuke Matsushita in: Nihon Seisansei Honbu (1984), Strategies for productivity: international perspectives, p. 124

Matsushita Konosuke Quotes

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

Source: Quest for prosperity: the life of a Japanese industrialist. 1988, p. 47

“I underlined my conviction that running a business and managing an enterprise were not merely a private concern but a public endeavor.”

Source: Quest for prosperity: the life of a Japanese industrialist. 1988, p. 232

Similar authors

Kenzaburō Ōe photo
Kenzaburō Ōe 43
Japanese author
Yukio Mishima photo
Yukio Mishima 60
Japanese author
Makoto Kobayashi (physicist) photo
Makoto Kobayashi (physicist) 3
Japanese physicist
Yasunari Kawabata photo
Yasunari Kawabata 44
Japanese author, Nobel Prize winner
Kanō Jigorō photo
Kanō Jigorō 19
Japanese educator and judoka
Haruki Murakami photo
Haruki Murakami 655
Japanese author, novelist
Stephen R. Covey photo
Stephen R. Covey 125
American educator, author, businessman and motivational spe…
Daisaku Ikeda photo
Daisaku Ikeda 25
Japanese writer
Kazuo Ishiguro photo
Kazuo Ishiguro 76
Japanese-born British author
Hayao Miyazaki photo
Hayao Miyazaki 34
Japanese animator, film director, and mangaka