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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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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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We don't believe in market research for a new product unknown to the public. So we never do any.
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The public does not know what is possible. We do.
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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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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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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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Curiosity is the key to creativity.
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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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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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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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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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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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Never break another man's rice bowl.
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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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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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Carefully watch how people live, get an intuitive sense as to what they might want and then go with it. Don’t do market research.
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America looks 10 minutes ahead Japan looks 10 years.
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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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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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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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