"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."

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Source : "Strategies for productivity: international perspectives". Book by Nihon Seisansei Honbu, p. 124, 1984.

Konosuke Matsushita

#Skins Quotes #Needs Quotes #Temperature Quotes

“Epidemics follow patterns because diseases follow patterns. Viruses spread; they reproduce; they die.”

Source : "It's Spreading" by Jill Lepore, www.newyorker.com. June 1, 2009.
“This thing with everyone knowing you, it's weird, because people have this one-sided relationship where they look at your picture and feel they know you more than someone they actually know. I don't really know myself that well.”
“For centuries before Google, MIT, and IDEO, modern hotbeds of innovation, we struggled to explain any kind of creation, from the universe itself to the multitudes of ideas around us. While we can make atomic bombs, and dry-clean silk ties, we still don't have satisfying answers for simple questions like: Where do songs come from? Are there an infinite variety of possible kinds of cheese? How did Shakespeare and Stephen King invent so much, while we're satisfied watching sitcom reruns? Our popular answers have been unconvincing, enabling misleading, fantasy-laden myths to grow strong.”
“My name is Katniss Everdeen. My home is District Twelve. Peeta was taken prisoner. He is thought to be dead. Most likely is dead. It would probably be best if he were dead... - Katniss EverdeenS”
“America seemed a virgin land waiting for civilization. But Europe had made the wilderness it found; America was not a virgin, she was a widow.”

Source : Ronald Wright (2005). “Stolen Continents: Five Hundered Years of Conquest and Resistance in the Americas”, p.91, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I care deeply about journalism, but we need to be a business,”
“Iâ€™ve done what Lorien has intended me to do, and thatâ€™s to undo damage thatâ€™s been inflicted on those who donâ€™t deserve it.”
“I know what it takes to put a record together, so I'm not looking for people to come in and shape it.”

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