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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.

Akio Morita

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Akio Morita
Age: 78 †
Born: 1921
Born: January 26
Died: 1999
Died: October 3
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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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I established the rule that once we hire an employee, his school records are a matter of the past and are no longer used to evaluate his work or decide on his promotion.
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I knew we needed a weapon to break through to the US market, and it had to be something different, something that nobody else was making.
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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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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing. To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
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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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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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Never break another man's rice bowl.
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I believe people work for satisfaction.
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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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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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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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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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In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues. If you trust your colleague today, he may be your competitor tomorrow, because people frequently move from one company to another.
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I consider it my job to nurture the creativity of the people I work with because at Sony we know that a terrific idea is more likely to happen in an open, free and trusting atmosphere than when everything is calculated, every action analysed and every responsibility assigned by an organisation chart.
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