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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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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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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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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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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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More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.
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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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If we face recession, we should not lay off employees the company should sacrifice a profit. It's management's risk and management's responsibility. Employees are not guilty why should they suffer?
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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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In the long run, no matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty, your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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Americans make money by playing `money games,' namely mergers, acquisitions, by simply moving money back and forth ... instead of creating and producing goods with some actual value.
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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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We don't believe in market research for a new product unknown to the public. So we never do any.
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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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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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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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If you don't want Japan to buy it, don't sell it.
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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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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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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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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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