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But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.

Akio Morita

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Akio Morita
Age: 78 †
Born: 1921
Born: January 26
Died: 1999
Died: October 3
Businessman
Businessperson
Engineer
Physicist
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Twice
Mistake
Sure

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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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Our plan is to lead the public with new products rather than ask them what kind of products they want.
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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 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 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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Never break another man's rice bowl.
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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 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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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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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 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 people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.
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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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America looks 10 minutes ahead Japan looks 10 years.
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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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