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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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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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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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The patron saint of Japanese quality control, ironically, is an American named W. Edwards Deming, who was virtually unknown in his own country until his ideas of quality control began to make such a big impact on Japanese companies.
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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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The public does not know what is possible. We do.
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