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The public does not know what is possible. We do.

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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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I believe people work for satisfaction.
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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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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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But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.
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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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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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Advertising and promotion alone will not sustain a bad product or a product that is not right for the times.
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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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There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.
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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 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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All you need is the best product in the world, the most efficient production in the world and global marketing.
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Never break another man's rice bowl.
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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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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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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
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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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Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.
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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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