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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.

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Akio Morita
Age: 78 †
Born: 1921
Born: January 26
Died: 1999
Died: October 3
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Curiosity is the key to creativity.
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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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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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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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But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.
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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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In the long run, no matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty, your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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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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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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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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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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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 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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America looks 10 minutes ahead Japan looks 10 years.
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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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