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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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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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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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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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We don't believe in market research for a new product unknown to the public. So we never do any.
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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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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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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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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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Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.
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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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My chief job is to constantly stir or rekindle the curiosity of people that gets driven out by bureaucracy and formal schooling systems.
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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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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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There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.
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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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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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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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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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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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