To gain profit is important, but you must invest to build up assets that you can cash in in the future.
AKIO MORITAEmployees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
More Akio Morita Quotes
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We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business.
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Curiosity is the key to creativity.
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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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Carefully watch how people live, get an intuitive sense as to what they might want and then go with it.
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The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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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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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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And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.
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The public does not know what is possible. We do.
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There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing.
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I established the rule that once we hire an employee, his school records are a matter of the past and are no longer used to evaluate his work or decide on his promotion.
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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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Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.
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Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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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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