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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.

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Akio Morita
Age: 78 †
Born: 1921
Born: January 26
Died: 1999
Died: October 3
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More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.
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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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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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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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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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Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.
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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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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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We don't believe in market research for a new product unknown to the public. So we never do any.
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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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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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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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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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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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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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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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