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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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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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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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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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You can be totally rational with a machine. But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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The public does not know what is possible. We do.
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Never break another man's rice bowl.
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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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We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business. And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.
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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 believe people work for satisfaction.
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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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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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I believe one of the reasons we went through such a remarkable growth period was that we had this atmosphere of free discussion.
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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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