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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
Believe
People
Satisfaction
Work

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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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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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All you need is the best product in the world, the most efficient production in the world and global marketing.
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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 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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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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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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Curiosity is the key to creativity.
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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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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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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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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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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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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 people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.
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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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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
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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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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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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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