I believe it is a big mistake to think that money is the only way to compensate a person for his work.
AKIO MORITAThe best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart’s desire their technological capacity.
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Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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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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The remarkable thing about management is that a manager can go on for years making mistakes that nobody is aware of, which means that management can be a kind of a con job.
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In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues.
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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 solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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We treat employees as a member of the family.
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Our plan is to lead the public with new products rather than ask them what kind of products they want.
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There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing.
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Never break another man’s rice bowl.
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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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Don’t do market research.
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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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