(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.
AKIO MORITAMy solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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People need money, but they also want to be happy in their work and proud of it.
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If we do our best and make efforts, a peaceful and great future will become ours without fail.
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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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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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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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Don’t do market research.
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It has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony – and in service.
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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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We want to keep the company healthy and its employees happy, and we want to keep them on the job and productive.
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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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The 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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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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Carefully watch how people live, get an intuitive sense as to what they might want and then go with it.
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But make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.
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