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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.

Akio Morita

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Akio Morita
Age: 78 †
Born: 1921
Born: January 26
Died: 1999
Died: October 3
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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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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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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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All you need is the best product in the world, the most efficient production in the world and global marketing.
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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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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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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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Advertising and promotion alone will not sustain a bad product or a product that is not right for the times.
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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 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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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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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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Never break another man's rice bowl.
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(Japanese Government believes that if you have a big laboratory with all the latest equipment and good funding it will automatically lead to creativity. It doesn't work that way.
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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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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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If you don't want Japan to buy it, don't sell it.
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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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