There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing.
AKIO MORITAAmericans 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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People need money, but they also want to be happy in their work and proud of it.
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Once you have a staff of prepared, intelligent, and energetic people, the next step is to motivate them to be creative.
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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 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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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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The important thing in my view is not to pin the blame for a mistake on somebody, but rather to find out what caused the mistake.
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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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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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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period.
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Don’t do market research.
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Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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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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But make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.
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