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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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I consider it my job to nurture the creativity of the people I work with because at Sony we know that a terrific idea is more likely to happen in an open, free and trusting atmosphere than when everything is calculated, every action analysed and every responsibility assigned by an organisation chart.
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If you don't want Japan to buy it, don't sell it.
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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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We don't believe in market research for a new product unknown to the public. So we never do any.
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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I believe one of the reasons we went through such a remarkable growth period was that we had this atmosphere of free discussion.
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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 only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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America looks 10 minutes ahead Japan looks 10 years.
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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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We want everybody to have the best facilities in which to work, but we do not believe in posh and impressive private offices.
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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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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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Our plan is to lead the public with new products rather than ask them what kind of products they want.
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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
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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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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 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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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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