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I believe people work for satisfaction.

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
Believe
People
Satisfaction

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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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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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In the long run, no matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty, your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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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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But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.
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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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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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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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I established the rule that once we hire an employee, his school records are a matter of the past and are no longer used to evaluate his work or decide on his promotion.
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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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Never break another man's rice bowl.
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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
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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 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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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 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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All you need is the best product in the world, the most efficient production in the world and global marketing.
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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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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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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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