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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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Akio Morita
Age: 78 †
Born: 1921
Born: January 26
Died: 1999
Died: October 3
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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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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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Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.
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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
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