Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
AKIO MORITAA company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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My concept is that anybody has creative ability, but very few people know how to use it.
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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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All you need is the best product in the world, the most efficient production in the world and global marketing.
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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues.
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We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business.
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It’s difficult to see new projects to fruition.
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If we face recession, we should not lay off employees; the company should sacrifice a profit. It’s management’s risk and management’s responsibility.
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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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Curiosity is the key to creativity.
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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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And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.
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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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The important thing in my view is not to pin the blame for a mistake on somebody, but rather to find out what caused the mistake.
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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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