“…if you have so many lawyers, they have to find business, which sometimes they have to create. Sometimes nonsensical lawsuits are generated by lawyers. In this country (the United States everybody sues everybody.”

—  Akio Morita

Source: Made in Japan (1986), p. 174.

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