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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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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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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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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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Never break another man's rice bowl.
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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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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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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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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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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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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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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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The company must not throw money away on huge bonuses for executives or other frivolities but must share its fate with the workers.
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But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.
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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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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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