Curiosity is the key to creativity.
AKIO MORITA(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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My concept is that anybody has creative ability, but very few people know how to use it.
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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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But make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.
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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 public does not know what is possible. We do.
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In the long run, no matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty.
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If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell it.
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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It’s difficult to see new projects to fruition.
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In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues.
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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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The important thing in my view is not to pin the blame for a mistake on somebody, but rather to find out what caused the mistake.
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I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.
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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.
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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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