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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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Akio Morita
Age: 78 †
Born: 1921
Born: January 26
Died: 1999
Died: October 3
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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
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If we face recession, we should not lay off employees the company should sacrifice a profit. It's management's risk and management's responsibility. Employees are not guilty why should they suffer?
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The public does not know what is possible. We do.
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The remarkable thing about management is that a manager can go on for years making mistakes that nobody is aware of, which means that management can be a kind of a con job.
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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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The patron saint of Japanese quality control, ironically, is an American named W. Edwards Deming, who was virtually unknown in his own country until his ideas of quality control began to make such a big impact on Japanese companies.
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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 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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(Japanese Government believes that if you have a big laboratory with all the latest equipment and good funding it will automatically lead to creativity. It doesn't work that way.
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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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The company must not throw money away on huge bonuses for executives or other frivolities but must share its fate with the workers.
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If we do our best and make efforts, a peaceful and great future will become ours without fail. Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.
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I believe people work for satisfaction.
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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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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.
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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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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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Executives of the company must have the necessary qualities to direct the personnel by showing them the way to do things.
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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