All you need is the best product in the world, the most efficient production in the world and global marketing.
AKIO MORITAMy solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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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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More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.
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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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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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It has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony – and in service.
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There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing.
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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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The public does not know what is possible. We do.
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I often say to my assistants, “Never trust anybody,” but what I mean is that you should never trust someone else to do a job exactly the way you would want it done.
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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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(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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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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If you trust your colleague today, he may be your competitor tomorrow, because people frequently move from one company to another.
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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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