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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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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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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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To gain profit is important, but you must invest to build up assets that you can cash in in the future.
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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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There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.
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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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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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