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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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Business

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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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I consider it my job to nurture the creativity of the people I work with because at Sony we know that a terrific idea is more likely to happen in an open, free and trusting atmosphere than when everything is calculated, every action analysed and every responsibility assigned by an organisation chart.
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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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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 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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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.
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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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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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We want to keep the company healthy and its employees happy, and we want to keep them on the job and productive.
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Carefully watch how people live, get an intuitive sense as to what they might want and then go with it. Don’t do market research.
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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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Americans make money by playing `money games,' namely mergers, acquisitions, by simply moving money back and forth ... instead of creating and producing goods with some actual value.
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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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Never break another man's rice bowl.
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Advertising and promotion alone will not sustain a bad product or a product that is not right for the times.
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Of course we have to make a profit, but we have to make a profit over the long haul, not just the short term, and that means we must keep investing in research and development - it has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony - and in service.
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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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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job, I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.
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The public does not know what is possible. We do.
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