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Akio Morita
Age: 78 †
Born: 1921
Born: January 26
Died: 1999
Died: October 3
Businessman
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Engineer
Physicist
Japan
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America
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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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The remarkable thing about management is that a manager can go on for years making mistakes that nobody is aware of, which means that management can be a kind of a con job.
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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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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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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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(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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Advertising and promotion alone will not sustain a bad product or a product that is not right for the times.
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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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But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.
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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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We don't believe in market research for a new product unknown to the public. So we never do any.
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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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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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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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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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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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Curiosity is the key to creativity.
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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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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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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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