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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 attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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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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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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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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Curiosity is the key to creativity.
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The public does not know what is possible. We do.
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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business. And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.
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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
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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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Advertising and promotion alone will not sustain a bad product or a product that is not right for the times.
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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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The important thing in my view is not to pin the blame for a mistake on somebody, but rather to find out what caused the mistake.
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We want everybody to have the best facilities in which to work, but we do not believe in posh and impressive private offices.
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You can be totally rational with a machine. But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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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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To gain profit is important, but you must invest to build up assets that you can cash in in the future.
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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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