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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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I have always made it a point to know our employees, to visit every facility of our company, and to try to meet and know every single employee.
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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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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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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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The public does not know what is possible. We do.
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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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All you need is the best product in the world, the most efficient production in the world and global marketing.
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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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If you go through life convinced that your way is always best, all the new ideas in the world will pass you by.
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More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.
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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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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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There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.
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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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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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We want everybody to have the best facilities in which to work, but we do not believe in posh and impressive private offices.
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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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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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I believe people work for satisfaction.
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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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