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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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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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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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Curiosity is the key to creativity.
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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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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 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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There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.
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Never break another man's rice bowl.
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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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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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The public does not know what is possible. We do.
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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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