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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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Akio Morita
Age: 78 †
Born: 1921
Born: January 26
Died: 1999
Died: October 3
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I believe people work for satisfaction.
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I consider it my job to nurture the creativity of the people I work with because at Sony we know that a terrific idea is more likely to happen in an open, free and trusting atmosphere than when everything is calculated, every action analysed and every responsibility assigned by an organisation chart.
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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 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 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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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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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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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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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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Advertising and promotion alone will not sustain a bad product or a product that is not right for the times.
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But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.
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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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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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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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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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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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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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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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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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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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