And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.
AKIO MORITACuriosity is the key to creativity.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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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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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
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If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell it.
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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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Every action analysed and every responsibility assigned by an organisation chart.
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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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To create a familylike feeling within the corporation, a feeling that employees and managers share the same fate.
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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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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.
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Never break another man’s rice bowl.
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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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If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
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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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If we face recession, we should not lay off employees; the company should sacrifice a profit. It’s management’s risk and management’s responsibility.
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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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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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The company must not throw money away on huge bonuses for executives or other frivolities but must share its fate with the workers.
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Curiosity is the key to creativity.
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Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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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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In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues.
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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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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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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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