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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.

Akio Morita

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Akio Morita
Age: 78 †
Born: 1921
Born: January 26
Died: 1999
Died: October 3
Businessman
Businessperson
Engineer
Physicist
Business
Sales
Innovation
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Force

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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target. The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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The public does not know what is possible. We do.
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The most important mission for a Japanese manager is to develop a healthy relationship with his employees, to create a familylike feeling within the corporation, a feeling that employees and managers share the same fate.
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My chief job is to constantly stir or rekindle the curiosity of people that gets driven out by bureaucracy and formal schooling systems.
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There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing. To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
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I knew we needed a weapon to break through to the US market, and it had to be something different, something that nobody else was making.
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(Japanese Government believes that if you have a big laboratory with all the latest equipment and good funding it will automatically lead to creativity. It doesn't work that way.
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In the long run, no matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty, your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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If we do our best and make efforts, a peaceful and great future will become ours without fail. Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.
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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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If we face recession, we should not lay off employees the company should sacrifice a profit. It's management's risk and management's responsibility. Employees are not guilty why should they suffer?
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I often say to my assistants, Never trust anybody, but what I mean is that you should never trust someone else to do a job exactly the way you would want it done.
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America looks 10 minutes ahead Japan looks 10 years.
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The company must not throw money away on huge bonuses for executives or other frivolities but must share its fate with the workers.
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The important thing in my view is not to pin the blame for a mistake on somebody, but rather to find out what caused the mistake.
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Executives of the company must have the necessary qualities to direct the personnel by showing them the way to do things.
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The patron saint of Japanese quality control, ironically, is an American named W. Edwards Deming, who was virtually unknown in his own country until his ideas of quality control began to make such a big impact on Japanese companies.
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All you need is the best product in the world, the most efficient production in the world and global marketing.
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In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues. If you trust your colleague today, he may be your competitor tomorrow, because people frequently move from one company to another.
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You can be totally rational with a machine. But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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