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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
Sell
Sells
Japan

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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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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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From a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people's inborn creativity. My concept is that anybody has creative ability, but very few people know how to use it.
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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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Americans make money by playing `money games,' namely mergers, acquisitions, by simply moving money back and forth ... instead of creating and producing goods with some actual value.
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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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More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.
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I believe people work for satisfaction.
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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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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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We want to keep the company healthy and its employees happy, and we want to keep them on the job and productive.
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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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I believe one of the reasons we went through such a remarkable growth period was that we had this atmosphere of free discussion.
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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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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 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 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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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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The most important mission for a Japanese manager is to develop a healthy relationship with his employees, to create a familylike feeling within the corporation, a feeling that employees and managers share the same fate.
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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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