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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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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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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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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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Never break another man's rice bowl.
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Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period, it's difficult to see new projects to fruition.
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Once you have a staff of prepared, intelligent, and energetic people, the next step is to motivate them to be creative.
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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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There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing. To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
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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 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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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 public does not know what is possible. We do.
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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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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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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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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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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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Carefully watch how people live, get an intuitive sense as to what they might want and then go with it. Don’t do market research.
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