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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.

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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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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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From a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people's inborn creativity. My concept is that anybody has creative ability, but very few people know how to use it.
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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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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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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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Management of an industrial company must be giving targets to the engineers constantly that may be the most important job management has in dealing with its engineers.
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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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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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The remarkable thing about management is that a manager can go on for years making mistakes that nobody is aware of, which means that management can be a kind of a con job.
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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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If you don't want Japan to buy it, don't sell it.
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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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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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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 public does not know what is possible. We do.
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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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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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But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.
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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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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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