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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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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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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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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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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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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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