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Akio Morita
Age: 78 †
Born: 1921
Born: January 26
Died: 1999
Died: October 3
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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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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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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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Curiosity is the key to creativity.
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Never break another man's rice bowl.
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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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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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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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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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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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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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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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The public does not know what is possible. We do.
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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 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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If you don't want Japan to buy it, don't sell it.
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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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I believe people work for satisfaction.
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There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing. To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
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