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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.

Akio Morita

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Akio Morita
Age: 78 †
Born: 1921
Born: January 26
Died: 1999
Died: October 3
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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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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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I believe people work for satisfaction.
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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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Once you have a staff of prepared, intelligent, and energetic people, the next step is to motivate them to be creative.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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You can be totally rational with a machine. But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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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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Advertising and promotion alone will not sustain a bad product or a product that is not right for the times.
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