Akio Morita Quotes

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.

Occupation is one great source of enjoyment. No man, properly occupied, was ever miserable.

I think a lot of times it's not money that's the primary motivation factor; it's the passion for your job and the professional and personal satisfaction that you get out of doing what you do that motivates you.

If I'm not working on something, I'm eager to work on something because it's so gratifying.

Work is the most nourishing thing so far in my life.

I feel true success comes from being able to work and the love for it.

I am not conscious of working especially hard, or of 'working' at all. Writing and teaching have always been, for me, so richly rewarding that I don't think of them as work in the usual sense of the word.

Strengths are not activities you're good at, they're activities that strengthen you. A strength is an activity that before you're doing it you look forward to doing it; while you're doing it, time goes by quickly and you can concentrate; after you've done it, it seems to fulfill a need of yours.

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

It's not about working anymore, its about doing work I can be proud of.

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.

Basically, what it comes down to is I love what I do. I don't do it for fame. I don't do it for money. I just love it.

Like what you do, and then you will do your best.

My work is all that I think about because I spent so many years not doing anything. Therefore, work pleases me, which is success in itself.

Work is the best wonder drug ever devised by God. Work is as necessary to man as eating and sleeping. Pleasure derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures.

If you do have something you love to do, the fun part of the job is no different than what was fun about doing it in high school for no money. I thought there would be some greater reward in succeeding.

Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning.

People only do their best at things they truly enjoy

The secret is to find what you love to do.I mean, I tell the students look for the job that you would take if you didn't need a job. I mean, it's that simple. And I was lucky enough to find it very early in life. And then the second thing is to have people around you that make feel good every day, and make you a better person than you otherwise would be.

Rather than making money I believe in making people happy, all other things are secondary. Money isn't important, creative satisfaction is

Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.

What I've learned from the Pixar guys is 'If you work for the love of what you're doing, it's always going to come out right.' Cause if you're working for a paycheck then it's not going to work in the long run; it's not going to feed your heart and soul.

The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Nothing gives quite the satisfaction that doing things brings.