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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.

Akio Morita

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Akio Morita
Age: 78 †
Born: 1921
Born: January 26
Died: 1999
Died: October 3
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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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If you don't want Japan to buy it, don't sell it.
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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 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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Management of an industrial company must be giving targets to the engineers constantly that may be the most important job management has in dealing with its engineers.
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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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My chief job is to constantly stir or rekindle the curiosity of people that gets driven out by bureaucracy and formal schooling systems.
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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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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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If we face recession, we should not lay off employees the company should sacrifice a profit. It's management's risk and management's responsibility. Employees are not guilty why should they suffer?
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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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The public does not know what is possible. We do.
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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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Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period, it's difficult to see new projects to fruition.
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In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues. If you trust your colleague today, he may be your competitor tomorrow, because people frequently move from one company to another.
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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.
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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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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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