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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.

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Akio Morita
Age: 78 †
Born: 1921
Born: January 26
Died: 1999
Died: October 3
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Engineer
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Executives of the company must have the necessary qualities to direct the personnel by showing them the way to do things.
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But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.
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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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We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business. And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.
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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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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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From a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people's inborn creativity. My concept is that anybody has creative ability, but very few people know how to use it.
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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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I often say to my assistants, Never trust anybody, but what I mean is that you should never trust someone else to do a job exactly the way you would want it done.
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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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Curiosity is the key to creativity.
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Never break another man's rice bowl.
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America looks 10 minutes ahead Japan looks 10 years.
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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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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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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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Our plan is to lead the public with new products rather than ask them what kind of products they want.
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If you don't want Japan to buy it, don't sell it.
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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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Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.
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