There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing.
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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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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More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.
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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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Every action analysed and every responsibility assigned by an organisation chart.
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People need money, but they also want to be happy in their work and proud of it.
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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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My concept is that anybody has creative ability, but very few people know how to use it.
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I believe it is a big mistake to think that money is the only way to compensate a person for his work.
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In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues.
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Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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I knew we needed a weapon to break through to the US market, and it had to be something different, something that nobody else was making.
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I often say to my assistants, “Never trust anybody,” but what I mean is that you should never trust someone else to do a job exactly the way you would want it done.
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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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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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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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