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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.

Akio Morita

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Akio Morita
Age: 78 †
Born: 1921
Born: January 26
Died: 1999
Died: October 3
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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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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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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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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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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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Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.
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America looks 10 minutes ahead Japan looks 10 years.
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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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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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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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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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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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If you don't want Japan to buy it, don't sell it.
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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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Advertising and promotion alone will not sustain a bad product or a product that is not right for the times.
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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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There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.
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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 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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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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