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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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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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There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.
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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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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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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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Never break another man's rice bowl.
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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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Advertising and promotion alone will not sustain a bad product or a product that is not right for the times.
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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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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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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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Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.
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From a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people's inborn creativity. My concept is that anybody has creative ability, but very few people know how to use it.
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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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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 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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