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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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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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Americans make money by playing `money games,' namely mergers, acquisitions, by simply moving money back and forth ... instead of creating and producing goods with some actual value.
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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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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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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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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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I believe people work for satisfaction.
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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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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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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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Never break another man's rice bowl.
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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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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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