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Akio Morita
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Akio Morita
Age: 78 †
Born: 1921
Born: January 26
Died: 1999
Died: October 3
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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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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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Carefully watch how people live, get an intuitive sense as to what they might want and then go with it. Don’t do market research.
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We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business. And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.
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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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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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My chief job is to constantly stir or rekindle the curiosity of people that gets driven out by bureaucracy and formal schooling systems.
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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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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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But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.
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I believe people work for satisfaction.
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Curiosity is the key to creativity.
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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 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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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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Our plan is to lead the public with new products rather than ask them what kind of products they want.
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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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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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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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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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