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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
Satisfaction
Work
Believe
People

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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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Management of an industrial company must be giving targets to the engineers constantly that may be the most important job management has in dealing with its engineers.
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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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Advertising and promotion alone will not sustain a bad product or a product that is not right for the times.
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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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The company must not throw money away on huge bonuses for executives or other frivolities but must share its fate with the workers.
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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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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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The most important mission for a Japanese manager is to develop a healthy relationship with his employees, to create a familylike feeling within the corporation, a feeling that employees and managers share the same fate.
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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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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.
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But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.
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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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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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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 public does not know what is possible. We do.
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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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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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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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