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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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Advertising and promotion alone will not sustain a bad product or a product that is not right for the times.
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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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I believe people work for satisfaction.
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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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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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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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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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The patron saint of Japanese quality control, ironically, is an American named W. Edwards Deming, who was virtually unknown in his own country until his ideas of quality control began to make such a big impact on Japanese companies.
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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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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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