Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.
AKIO MORITAIn the long run, no matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty.
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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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Advertising and promotion alone will not sustain a bad product or a product that is not right for the times.
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But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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We want to keep the company healthy and its employees happy, and we want to keep them on the job and productive.
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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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From a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people’s inborn creativity.
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In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues.
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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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I consider it my job to nurture the creativity of the people I work with because at Sony we know that a terrific idea is more likely to happen in an open, free and trusting atmosphere than when everything is calculated.
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It’s difficult to see new projects to fruition.
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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 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 you go through life convinced that your way is always best, all the new ideas in the world will pass you by.
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There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing.
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The “patron saint” of Japanese quality control, ironically, is an American named W. Edwards Deming, who was virtually unknown in his own country until his ideas of quality control began to make such a big impact on Japanese companies.
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