But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
AKIO MORITAI feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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We want to keep the company healthy and its employees happy, and we want to keep them on the job and productive.
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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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We don’t believe in market research for a new product unknown to the public. So we never do any.
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But make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.
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Curiosity is the key to creativity.
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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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Management of an industrial company must be giving targets to the engineers constantly; that may be the most important job management has in dealing with its engineers.
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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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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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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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(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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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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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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