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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
Japan
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America
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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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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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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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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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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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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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We don't believe in market research for a new product unknown to the public. So we never do any.
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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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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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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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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
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I believe people work for satisfaction.
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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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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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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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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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