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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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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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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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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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More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.
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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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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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Our plan is to lead the public with new products rather than ask them what kind of products they want.
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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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Advertising and promotion alone will not sustain a bad product or a product that is not right for the times.
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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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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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Never break another man's rice bowl.
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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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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.
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Curiosity is the key to creativity.
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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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I consider it my job to nurture the creativity of the people I work with because at Sony we know that a terrific idea is more likely to happen in an open, free and trusting atmosphere than when everything is calculated, every action analysed and every responsibility assigned by an organisation chart.
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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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