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The important thing in my view is not to pin the blame for a mistake on somebody, but rather to find out what caused the mistake.

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Akio Morita
Age: 78 †
Born: 1921
Born: January 26
Died: 1999
Died: October 3
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Curiosity is the key to creativity.
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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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Of course we have to make a profit, but we have to make a profit over the long haul, not just the short term, and that means we must keep investing in research and development - it has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony - and in service.
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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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If you don't want Japan to buy it, don't sell it.
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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 public does not know what is possible. We do.
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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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