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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 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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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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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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The public does not know what is possible. We do.
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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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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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We treat employees as a member of the family. If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
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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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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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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
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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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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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More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.
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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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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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America looks 10 minutes ahead Japan looks 10 years.
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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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Our plan is to lead the public with new products rather than ask them what kind of products they want.
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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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