Curiosity is the key to creativity.
AKIO MORITATo gain profit is important, but you must invest to build up assets that you can cash in in the future.
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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(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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Our plan is to lead the public with new products rather than ask them what kind of products they want.
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The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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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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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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Don’t do market research.
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But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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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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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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In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues.
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The company must not throw money away on huge bonuses for executives or other frivolities but must share its fate with the workers.
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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.
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