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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.

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 Government believes that if you have a big laboratory with all the latest equipment and good funding it will automatically lead to creativity. It doesn't work that way.
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If you don't want Japan to buy it, don't sell it.
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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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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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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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