A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
AKIO MORITAOur plan is to lead the public with new products rather than ask them what kind of products they want.
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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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The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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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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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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Of course we have to make a profit, but we have to make a profit over the long haul, not just the short term, and that means we must keep investing in research and development.
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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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Don’t do market research.
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But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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Every action analysed and every responsibility assigned by an organisation chart.
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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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The public does not know what is possible. We do.
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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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If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell it.
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I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.
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