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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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Akio Morita
Age: 78 †
Born: 1921
Born: January 26
Died: 1999
Died: October 3
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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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We want to keep the company healthy and its employees happy, and we want to keep them on the job and productive.
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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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We want everybody to have the best facilities in which to work, but we do not believe in posh and impressive private offices.
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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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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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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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I often say to my assistants, Never trust anybody, but what I mean is that you should never trust someone else to do a job exactly the way you would want it done.
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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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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 public does not know what is possible. We do.
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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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But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.
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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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Curiosity is the key to creativity.
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Our plan is to lead the public with new products rather than ask them what kind of products they want.
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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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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.
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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.
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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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