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Akio Morita
Age: 78 †
Born: 1921
Born: January 26
Died: 1999
Died: October 3
Businessman
Businessperson
Engineer
Physicist
Japan
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America
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If you don't want Japan to buy it, don't sell it.
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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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Americans make money by playing `money games,' namely mergers, acquisitions, by simply moving money back and forth ... instead of creating and producing goods with some actual value.
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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job, I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.
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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 believe people work for satisfaction.
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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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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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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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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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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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The public does not know what is possible. We do.
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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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More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.
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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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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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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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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 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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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
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