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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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Sells
Japan

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America looks 10 minutes ahead Japan looks 10 years.
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Curiosity is the key to creativity.
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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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But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.
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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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There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.
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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 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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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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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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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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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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