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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
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Engineer
Physicist
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Work
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Japanese
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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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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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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 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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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 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 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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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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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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We don't believe in market research for a new product unknown to the public. So we never do any.
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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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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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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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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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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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(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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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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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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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
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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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