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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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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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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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(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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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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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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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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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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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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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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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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If you don't want Japan to buy it, don't sell it.
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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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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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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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Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.
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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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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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Curiosity is the key to creativity.
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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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