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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.

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Akio Morita
Age: 78 †
Born: 1921
Born: January 26
Died: 1999
Died: October 3
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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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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 will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.
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The public does not know what is possible. We do.
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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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But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.
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Carefully watch how people live, get an intuitive sense as to what they might want and then go with it. Don’t do market research.
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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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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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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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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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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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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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We don't believe in market research for a new product unknown to the public. So we never do any.
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There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.
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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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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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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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I believe people work for satisfaction.
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