America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
AKIO MORITAFrom a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people’s inborn creativity.
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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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We don’t believe in market research for a new product unknown to the public. So we never do any.
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If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell it.
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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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Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.
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I believe one of the reasons we went through such a remarkable growth period was that we had this atmosphere of free discussion.
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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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Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period.
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I have always made it a point to know our employees, to visit every facility of our company, and to try to meet and know every single employee.
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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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The most important mission for a Japanese manager is to develop a healthy relationship with his employees.
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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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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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I believe it is a big mistake to think that money is the only way to compensate a person for his work.
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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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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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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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Every action analysed and every responsibility assigned by an organisation chart.
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It’s difficult to see new projects to fruition.
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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The “patron saint” of Japanese quality control, ironically, is an American named W. Edwards Deming, who was virtually unknown in his own country until his ideas of quality control began to make such a big impact on Japanese companies.
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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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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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart’s desire their technological capacity.
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