My chief job is to constantly stir or rekindle the curiosity of people that gets driven out by bureaucracy and formal schooling systems.
AKIO MORITA(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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My concept is that anybody has creative ability, but very few people know how to use it.
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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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The most important mission for a Japanese manager is to develop a healthy relationship with his employees.
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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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It has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony – and in service.
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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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I believe one of the reasons we went through such a remarkable growth period was that we had this atmosphere of free discussion.
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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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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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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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Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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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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I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.
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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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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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