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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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Japan
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.
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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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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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Our plan is to lead the public with new products rather than ask them what kind of products they want.
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If you don't want Japan to buy it, don't sell it.
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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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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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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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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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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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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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We don't believe in market research for a new product unknown to the public. So we never do any.
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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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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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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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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 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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If we do our best and make efforts, a peaceful and great future will become ours without fail. Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.
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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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