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Akio Morita
Age: 78 †
Born: 1921
Born: January 26
Died: 1999
Died: October 3
Businessman
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Engineer
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Japan
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Of course we have to make a profit, but we have to make a profit over the long haul, not just the short term, and that means we must keep investing in research and development - it has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony - and in service.
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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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(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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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
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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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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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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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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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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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But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.
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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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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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Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.
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We treat employees as a member of the family. If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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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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More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.
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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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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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