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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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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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The company must not throw money away on huge bonuses for executives or other frivolities but must share its fate with the workers.
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But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target. The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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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 have always made it a point to know our employees, to visit every facility of our company, and to try to meet and know every single employee.
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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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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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There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing. To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
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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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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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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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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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Never break another man's rice bowl.
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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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To gain profit is important, but you must invest to build up assets that you can cash in in the future.
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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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(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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In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues. If you trust your colleague today, he may be your competitor tomorrow, because people frequently move from one company to another.
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