An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
AKIO MORITAI have always made it a point to know our employees, to visit every facility of our company, and to try to meet and know every single employee.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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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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(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 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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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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It’s difficult to see new projects to fruition.
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In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues.
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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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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I believe people work for satisfaction.
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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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To gain profit is important, but you must invest to build up assets that you can cash in in the future.
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But make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.
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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 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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