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Akio Morita
Akio Morita
1986·Tokyo, Japan

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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Akio MoritaAkio Morita·1986

..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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I believe people work for satisfaction.

Edmund HillaryEdmund Hillary·1999

I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.

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