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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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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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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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Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.
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From a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people's inborn creativity. My concept is that anybody has creative ability, but very few people know how to use it.
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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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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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If we do our best and make efforts, a peaceful and great future will become ours without fail. Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.
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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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Never break another man's rice bowl.
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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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Curiosity is the key to creativity.
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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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Our plan is to lead the public with new products rather than ask them what kind of products they want.
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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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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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But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.
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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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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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