The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
AKIO MORITAThe 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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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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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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People need money, but they also want to be happy in their work and proud of it.
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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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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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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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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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I believe people work for satisfaction.
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I 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.
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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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All you need is the best product in the world, the most efficient production in the world and global marketing.
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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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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 company must not throw money away on huge bonuses for executives or other frivolities but must share its fate with the workers.
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It has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony – and in service.
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