It’s difficult to see new projects to fruition.
AKIO MORITAThe best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
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We treat employees as a member of the family.
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There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing.
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If you go through life convinced that your way is always best, all the new ideas in the world will pass you by.
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Americans make money by playing `money games,’ namely mergers, acquisitions, by simply moving money back and forth … instead of creating and producing goods with some actual value.
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Once you have a staff of prepared, intelligent, and energetic people, the next step is to motivate them to be creative.
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From a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people’s inborn creativity.
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Management of an industrial company must be giving targets to the engineers constantly; that may be the most important job management has in dealing with its engineers.
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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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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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I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.
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All you need is the best product in the world, the most efficient production in the world and global marketing.
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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
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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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