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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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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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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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The most important mission for a Japanese manager is to develop a healthy relationship with his employees, to create a familylike feeling within the corporation, a feeling that employees and managers share the same fate.
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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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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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We treat employees as a member of the family. If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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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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The public does not know what is possible. We do.
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We don't believe in market research for a new product unknown to the public. So we never do any.
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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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All you need is the best product in the world, the most efficient production in the world and global marketing.
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