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Never break another man's rice bowl.

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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In the long run, no matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty, your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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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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Curiosity is the key to creativity.
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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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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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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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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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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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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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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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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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(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 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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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.
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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 only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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Our plan is to lead the public with new products rather than ask them what kind of products they want.
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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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But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.
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