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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
Sales
Innovation
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Force
Business

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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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I believe one of the reasons we went through such a remarkable growth period was that we had this atmosphere of free discussion.
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Our plan is to lead the public with new products rather than ask them what kind of products they want.
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Once you have a staff of prepared, intelligent, and energetic people, the next step is to motivate them to be creative.
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There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.
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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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(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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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period, it's difficult to see new projects to fruition.
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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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I believe it is a big mistake to think that money is the only way to compensate a person for his work. People need money, but they also want to be happy in their work and proud of it.
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I established the rule that once we hire an employee, his school records are a matter of the past and are no longer used to evaluate his work or decide on his promotion.
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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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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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We don't believe in market research for a new product unknown to the public. So we never do any.
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I believe people work for satisfaction.
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Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.
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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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To gain profit is important, but you must invest to build up assets that you can cash in in the future.
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