Akio Morita - Work Quotes

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What we in industry learned in dealing with people is that people do not work just for money and that if you are trying to motivate, money is not the most effective tool.

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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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... 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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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.

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We made a completely new kind of transistor (the NPN BJT), and in our development work, our researcher, Leo Esaki, demonstrated the electron tunneling effect, which led to the development of the tunnel diode for which he was awarded a Nobel Prize seventeen years later, after he had joined IBM.

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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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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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.. 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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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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