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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
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Engineer
Physicist
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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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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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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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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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To gain profit is important, but you must invest to build up assets that you can cash in in the future.
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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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If you don't want Japan to buy it, don't sell it.
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The patron saint of Japanese quality control, ironically, is an American named W. Edwards Deming, who was virtually unknown in his own country until his ideas of quality control began to make such a big impact on Japanese companies.
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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 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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All you need is the best product in the world, the most efficient production in the world and global marketing.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
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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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