When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
AKIO MORITAWe want everybody to have the best facilities in which to work, but we do not believe in posh and impressive private offices.
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The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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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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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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In the long run, no matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty.
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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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Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.
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But make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.
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In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues.
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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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I believe people work for satisfaction.
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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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My concept is that anybody has creative ability, but very few people know how to use 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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We want everybody to have the best facilities in which to work, but we do not believe in posh and impressive private offices.
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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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