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But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.

Akio Morita

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Akio Morita
Age: 78 †
Born: 1921
Born: January 26
Died: 1999
Died: October 3
Businessman
Businessperson
Engineer
Physicist
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Mistake
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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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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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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 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 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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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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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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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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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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There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.
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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 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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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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All you need is the best product in the world, the most efficient production in the world and global marketing.
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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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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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America looks 10 minutes ahead Japan looks 10 years.
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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 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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