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If you don't want Japan to buy it, don't sell it.

Akio Morita

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Akio Morita
Age: 78 †
Born: 1921
Born: January 26
Died: 1999
Died: October 3
Businessman
Businessperson
Engineer
Physicist
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Japan
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I often say to my assistants, Never trust anybody, but what I mean is that you should never trust someone else to do a job exactly the way you would want it done.
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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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Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.
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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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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target. The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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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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Never break another man's rice bowl.
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More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.
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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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Curiosity is the key to creativity.
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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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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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We don't believe in market research for a new product unknown to the public. So we never do any.
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Of course we have to make a profit, but we have to make a profit over the long haul, not just the short term, and that means we must keep investing in research and development - it has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony - and in service.
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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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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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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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I believe it is a big mistake to think that money is the only way to compensate a person for his work. People need money, but they also want to be happy in their work and proud of it.
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