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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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In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues. If you trust your colleague today, he may be your competitor tomorrow, because people frequently move from one company to another.
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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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Management of an industrial company must be giving targets to the engineers constantly that may be the most important job management has in dealing with its engineers.
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Never break another man's rice bowl.
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If you don't want Japan to buy it, don't sell it.
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You can be totally rational with a machine. But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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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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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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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 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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Carefully watch how people live, get an intuitive sense as to what they might want and then go with it. Don’t do market research.
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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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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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Advertising and promotion alone will not sustain a bad product or a product that is not right for the times.
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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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If you go through life convinced that your way is always best, all the new ideas in the world will pass you by.
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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 don't believe in market research for a new product unknown to the public. So we never do any.
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The remarkable thing about management is that a manager can go on for years making mistakes that nobody is aware of, which means that management can be a kind of a con job.
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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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