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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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Engineer
Physicist
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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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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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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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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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If you don't want Japan to buy it, don't sell 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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But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.
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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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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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