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.
AKIO MORITAWe don’t believe in market research for a new product unknown to the public. So we never do any.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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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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My chief job is to constantly stir or rekindle the curiosity of people that gets driven out by bureaucracy and formal schooling systems.
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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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We treat employees as a member of the family.
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From a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people’s inborn creativity.
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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
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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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And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.
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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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All you need is the best product in the world, the most efficient production in the world and global marketing.
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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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The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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But make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.
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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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