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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.

Akio Morita

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Akio Morita
Age: 78 †
Born: 1921
Born: January 26
Died: 1999
Died: October 3
Businessman
Businessperson
Engineer
Physicist
Work
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Japanese
Toward
Seem
Attitude
American
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Different
Critically

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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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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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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 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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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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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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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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I believe people work for satisfaction.
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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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Once you have a staff of prepared, intelligent, and energetic people, the next step is to motivate them to be creative.
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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 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 important thing in my view is not to pin the blame for a mistake on somebody, but rather to find out what caused the mistake.
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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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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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More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.
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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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Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.
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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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Executives of the company must have the necessary qualities to direct the personnel by showing them the way to do things.
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