I believe it is a big mistake to think that money is the only way to compensate a person for his work.
AKIO MORITAWe 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.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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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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Never break another man’s rice bowl.
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But make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.
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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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Curiosity is the key to creativity.
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Carefully watch how people live, get an intuitive sense as to what they might want and then go with it.
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Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
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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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More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.
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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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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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People need money, but they also want to be happy in their work and proud of it.
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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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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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