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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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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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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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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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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 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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Of course we have to make a profit, but we have to make a profit over the long haul, not just the short term, and that means we must keep investing in research and development - it has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony - and in service.
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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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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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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
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The important thing in my view is not to pin the blame for a mistake on somebody, but rather to find out what caused the mistake.
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If we do our best and make efforts, a peaceful and great future will become ours without fail. Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.
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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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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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But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.
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Curiosity is the key to creativity.
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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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If you don't want Japan to buy it, don't sell it.
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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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America looks 10 minutes ahead Japan looks 10 years.
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