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.
AKIO MORITAMore people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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I knew we needed a weapon to break through to the US market, and it had to be something different, something that nobody else was making.
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell it.
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To gain profit is important, but you must invest to build up assets that you can cash in in the future.
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The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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Don’t do market research.
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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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It has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony – and in service.
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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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Curiosity is the key to creativity.
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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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Of course we have to make a profit, but we have to make a profit over the long haul, not just the short term, and that means we must keep investing in research and development.
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But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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We don’t believe in market research for a new product unknown to the public. So we never do any.
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