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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
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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.”

Matsushita Konosuke

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

“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.”

Matsushita Konosuke

Kōnosuke Matsushita, quoted in: Philip Kotler (2012). Rethinking Marketing: Sustainable Marketing Enterprise in Asia. p. 82.

“The untrapped mind is open enough to see many possibilities, humble enough to learn from anyone and anything, forbearing enough to forgive all, perceptive enough to see things as they really are, and reasonable enough to judge their true value.”

Matsushita Konosuke

Kōnosuke Matsushita (1989) Nurturing Dreams My Path in Life. Quoted in: Tony Kippenberger (2002), Leadership Styles: Leading 08.04. p. 73

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

Matsushita Konosuke

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.”

Matsushita Konosuke

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.”

Matsushita Konosuke

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.”

Matsushita Konosuke

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

“If it does not grow, even though you are working hard, it is not because of unfavorable circumstances, bad timing, or bad luck. … of the past has shown, it is during the bad times that the skilled manager lays firm foundations for future growth.”

Matsushita Konosuke

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

“In order to do a good job a person must like what he or she is doing… If you do things just because you have to, then you will never enjoy work. Nor will you do a good job if you do it simply out of a sense of duty. Stress is often a by-product of such passive or negative attitudes toward work. Paradoxically as it may sound, love of work can be the best medicine for workaholism.”

Matsushita Konosuke

Kōnosuke Matsushita in: The Mirror, (1989), Vol. 25, p. 18

“In business as well, if you are to be successful you must always win. An enterprise will grow in accordance with the amount of effort you plow into it.”

Matsushita Konosuke

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

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

Matsushita Konosuke

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

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