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Akio Morita
Age: 78 †
Born: 1921
Born: January 26
Died: 1999
Died: October 3
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There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.
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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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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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America looks 10 minutes ahead Japan looks 10 years.
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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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The important thing in my view is not to pin the blame for a mistake on somebody, but rather to find out what caused the mistake.
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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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But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.
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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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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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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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Management of an industrial company must be giving targets to the engineers constantly that may be the most important job management has in dealing with its engineers.
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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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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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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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Americans make money by playing `money games,' namely mergers, acquisitions, by simply moving money back and forth ... instead of creating and producing goods with some actual value.
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